Thanks to Heather Mallick, the only columnist in the Globe and Mail consistently worth reading (Rick Salutin is hit and miss), I now have a new way of spending time that really should be spent doing more worthy things such as vacuuming, cleaning the tub, and digging out the pesky moss that gets between the cracks on the patio.
It's the talk section of the Guardian Unlimited, a website operated by that most worthy of British newspapers, The Guardian.
I've known about the Guardian Unlimited for a long time (there's a link on the right side of my main page), but I had ignored their message boards, assuming (wrongly) that they were run of the mill commentary on the issues of the day.) Heather Mallick has shown me how wrong I was. In just the Talk section of Books there are many threads that I could spend days exploring - changing one letter of a book title to come up with a different work entirely; authors you hate without even read their books (where I found the priceless Martin Amis quote "II could never finish Kafka's novels, but then again, neither could he"), and "books you eventually get round to but wish you hadn't bothered."
But time to wrap this up; I have time to waste over at the Guardian Unlimited site. Thank you Ms Mallick!
Posted by wetcoast at August 2, 2003 09:00 AM