Thursday, September 27, 2007

Where There's A Will: Thoughts on the Good Life


I have just recently finished a book, called Where There's A Will: Thoughts on the Good Life by Sir John Mortimer. (pictured on the left)
This is how the book starts out on page one, and I believe it tells readers to keep on reading.
"All advice is perfectly useless,' my father told me when he sent me away to school, ' Particullarly advice on the subject of life. You may, at a pinch, take your schoolteacher's word on the subject of equilateral triangles, or the Latin word for "parsley"; but remember that life's a closed book to schoolteachers, if you want my honest opinion.' (chapter one, page one, first paragraph.)
He gives quite a range of subjects for his chapters. From an old woman cooking eggs to outdoor sex.Getting drunk to Shakespeare's Favorites.
This book was excellant. It keeps you entertained and by the end of reading it, you will want to read it again.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

hmm well, i might just read it for the outdoor sex. haha.

Anonymous said...

Oh I never read this book but i have read the Rumpole series.