{"id":4208,"date":"2002-07-28T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-28T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2002\/07\/28\/gripping\/"},"modified":"2002-07-28T19:53:00","modified_gmt":"2002-07-28T19:53:00","slug":"gripping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2002\/07\/28\/gripping\/","title":{"rendered":"Gripping"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few days ago I said this<\/a>:
\nI need something to read. I’m reading A Star Called Henry at the moment and its just not doing it for me. I’m in the mood for something sexy is the word I’m looking for I guess. I can’t think of anything else. I want to read the next American Psycho or Fight Club or God is a Bullet. Something raw and powerful with one hell of a fucking story behind it.<\/i><\/p>\n

Yesterday I was wandering around town and I realised exactly what it was I was looking for. I saw an ad in the front window of a book shop for a book called “Lost in a book” and it struck me right then. That was what I was looking for. I wanted something powerful that would just grip me and I could go and loose myself in it. Books like that are pretty rare for me and I’ve not found anything yet. I did pick up a couple of books a new Clive Cussler (great popcorn reading) the new Peter David paperback (comedy popcorn) and a couple of crime thrillers that were on sale and looked mildly entertaining. Confession time though. I have at least 100 books lying around in front of me that I haven’t read. I bought them all because I wanted to read them and I still do. Just none of them are what I want now. Silly statement I know, they might just turn out to be, but nothing is grabbing me yet. There is a new book by Boston Terran in hardback that I might just pick up but we shall see.<\/p>\n

In other news, it does look like I’ll get one of those ABC books I wanted. I’m in the lead on eBay for Top Ten Volume One<\/i> hardcover. Paying a little over what I would have had I gotten it in the shops but not by all that much so I’m happy enough. The other one I wanted The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen<\/i> is at $66 dollars with a couple of hours to go and I am considering it. I suspect it is a little much and I might see if anyone at the WEF or V can hook my up with one. Having just checked what that is in sterling, it is too much. I suspect I will soon again hate eBay as my favourites from my comic collection become hardcover’s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few days ago I said this: I need something to read. I’m reading A Star Called Henry at the moment and its just not doing it for me. I’m in the mood for something sexy is the word I’m looking for I guess. I can’t think of anything else. I want to read the … Continue reading “Gripping”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}