Yesterday settling back into the routine of work rather uncomfortably after holiday, a bright ray of sunshine struck right through my reorganizing of the 3 for 2's. Commissioned by Penguin Ink - whose rather awesome logo of I took a shoddy photo of for the first picture - 6 of the worlds great tattooists have re-imagined 6 - well, in my humble opinion 3 or 4 - equally great books. They're also on 3 for 2 in Blackwell's, so despite trying to have some constraint, I opted for Nick Hornby's High Fidelity, which a friend confessed was his all time favorite book recently (fate?) The Rotter's Club by Jonathan Coe because I've just read The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim & it was billiant, & The Book of Dave by Will Self because fate (again) aligned as for about a year now people have been recommending me to read Will Self & this is the cover done by one of my favorite artists of the bunch, & the profession, Duncan X.
Sorry for lack of posts, my Berlin films are being developed by the very slow Jessops as we speak. But I do have some photos on my phone for posts, as well as having finally remembered to start something I've been meaning too for about 10 weeks now & haven't. Ooo cryptic. It'll all be clear by Friday, probably, promise.
Out.
jessops, sheesh. i've been there. be good when you can post some
ReplyDeleteThis post excited me immensely! Although I can think of a few books I would rather they had illustrated than some of these... Enjoy High Fidelity though - I loved it! And I'd love to read The Rotter's Club... did you watch the programme when it was on tv?
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