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Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis
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When I say I'm finished I mean I've read the articles and baulked at the silly quizzes at the back, which means I've read to page 198.
Not that I have anything against quizzes, it's just that, and I ask this honestly, can you really read a quiz? The brain has to work in an entirely different way, stop, start, go to the back of the class, advance to the front, or worse, soldier on with no success and end up thoroughly depressed.
Reading a good book should be the polite way an author imparts their experience, which is a nice way of saying educating the ignorant. A quiz either rubs your nose in it or confirms you didn't need to read the bloody thing in the first place and have wasted money that could have otherwise been spent on a good night out.
Everyday Drinking will remain on my shelf, nonetheless, because it is a jolly good reference book for topers wishing to engage in a show of oneupmanship.
Not that I have anything against quizzes, it's just that, and I ask this honestly, can you really read a quiz? The brain has to work in an entirely different way, stop, start, go to the back of the class, advance to the front, or worse, soldier on with no success and end up thoroughly depressed.
Reading a good book should be the polite way an author imparts their experience, which is a nice way of saying educating the ignorant. A quiz either rubs your nose in it or confirms you didn't need to read the bloody thing in the first place and have wasted money that could have otherwise been spent on a good night out.
Everyday Drinking will remain on my shelf, nonetheless, because it is a jolly good reference book for topers wishing to engage in a show of oneupmanship.
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July 23, 2020
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July 23, 2020
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August 8, 2020
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