pies and predjudice S maconie

[OrvilleRedenbacher]

a very good read
ihtinkaoyu

i love stuart maconie i'll put this on my list to read (one day).

godo i am loving it sofar

I love S Maconie also. I enjoy his wireless programme. May read his book.

Great title.
Think his radio show is great.
Will look out for it.

It's £10.99

Had a free morning yesterday, went into Waterstones, thought 'Ooooh, I'll settle down with that a nice grande chai latte'

Ordinary format paperback. Ten pounds and ninety-nine whole pence. Ithinknot.

Is that expensive for a book? People pay £15-20 for an album, the same for an evening at the theatre...

It's one of those "trade paperbacks" isn't it? The idea is that it's a first edition which is cheaper than a hardback. It'll be out in B-format in a year or so for £7-ish.

Oh, I know, I spent many happy years flogging overpriced trade paperbacks in various bookshops around London
But I don't recall it being that format, which is why I was so surprised.

Then again, I've never spent £15-£20 on an album either, so maybe I'm just a terrible cheapskate. The woman serving me clearly thought so...

Stuart Maconie was covering for Chris Evans a few weeks ago and I found him so irritating that I had to turn the radio off on the drive to nursery, which is only about 10 mins. Is he better on his own show then?

If I don't like him on the radio does that mean I also won't like his writing?

You find Stuart Maconie irritating but can happily listen to Chris Evans?

I don't know, bran, I think you're operating in a parallel universe to me

I know, I was a bit worried when I found myself thinking that Chris Evans had matured. I quite like the woman who does the business report on his show, usually in a 10 min nursery run about 3 mins is her and there's a song of 3 mins, so it's less than 5 mins of Chris and it sort of washes pleasantly over me. But when Stuart was on I actually said "Will you SHUT UP" to the radio, then felt a bit of a twit and turned it off. Up until then I only really knew him from snippets on 'I remember the 70s/80s' type of programmes, and thought he seemed interesting enough.