Reading

[anef]

Still struggling through Interesting Times, Eric Hobsbawm's autobiography.  It may be frivolous of me, but I expect an autobiography to be personal (and, if I'm lucky) entertaining.  This isn't either.  He has lived through interesting times, but he doesn't write about them at all engagingly.  Plus, his prose is horrid.  Sigh.

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[surliminal.livejournal.com]

Good god!! two posts!!

[anef.livejournal.com]

Jest tryin' to pay my debt to society. (Sorry, Michael will keep watching My Name is Earl!)

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

I've never tried reading Hobsbawm precisely because of his prose style (extracts are more than enough). G R Elton was a lot more fluent -- but also a lot more conservative. Sigh.