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The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life by Andy Miller (view source)
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I read ''The Da Vinci Code'' when I was ill. It was a great story and frankly I didn't care about whether or not it was well written. It helped, but a lot jarred when I went back to look at it later. But - like [[Fifty Shades Of Grey by EL James|Fifty Shades Of Grey]] it got a lot of people reading who might not otherwise have bothered. Some of Miller's early comments about Brown had seemed just a little snide and I suspected that I wasn't going to be amused. When we did come to talk about Brown it was in a surprising context - a list of what ''The Da Vinci Code'' and ''Moby Dick'' have in common. I laughed.
It's not really a book about books about but a book about Miller's life and how books have impacted upon it and changed it. It's about work and children and commuter trains, about reading a book in the queue in the Post Office or setting yourself a certain number of pages of a book which you must get through every day, be it Tolstoy, [[:Category:Douglas Adams|Douglas Adams]] or ''The Epic of Gilgamesh'' that's next on your list. By the time that I was about half way through I knew that I was in for the long haul - and was rather sad when I reached the end. I'd like to thank Audible for sending a copy to the Bookbag.
*For the record - he was brilliant.
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Audio downloads of the book are available from both Audible.co.uk and Audible.com.
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