IdleRich
IdleRich
Anyone been following this series in the Guardian? I've picked up a few of the issues during the week and glanced through them. I know these things are cynical and repetitive but I have to admit that I'm quite a sucker for them. This has been divided by genres which makes it different from the last few I've seen - though to be honest most of what I tend to read doesn't necessarily fit neatly into any particular genre and on top of that I find the genres they've selected a little uninspiring. Luckily they've played fast and loose with the sections and just crow-barred in what they want wherever it fits best - which makes the whole genre thing kind of redundant in my view - so I don't imagine that anything has been missed out because it's not a war/love/crime/etc story.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/series/1000novels
I'm sure I will pick up a few tips from this although so far I haven't particularly been moved by many of the descriptions, maybe it's the smallness of the space that each book is allotted but in most cases there is nothing more there than a few cliches you've heard before. Maybe 1000 is just too many for them to treat in any reasonable depth... but 100 is too few to get in any variety so I don't know what they should do.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/series/1000novels
I'm sure I will pick up a few tips from this although so far I haven't particularly been moved by many of the descriptions, maybe it's the smallness of the space that each book is allotted but in most cases there is nothing more there than a few cliches you've heard before. Maybe 1000 is just too many for them to treat in any reasonable depth... but 100 is too few to get in any variety so I don't know what they should do.