Ruth Barton wrote:
> I once tried to read a book that guy wrote, I think it's still here somewhere.  
Ruth,

Lucky Jim is the one to read. I have read about half of his output, not 
including his stint writing James Bond. Kathy asked me why I bothered. 
He is not exactly enduring as a writer and may be best known for his wry 
humor, drinking, womanizing and his son, the writer Martin Amis. Other 
than that I am not sure why I have read as much as I have.

On the claim that the Irish taught the Scots the process of 
distillation: "The idea of a medieval Irishman inventing a rather 
complicated technique like that of distilling, or anything at all for 
that matter, is hard to credit."

If you have a book that you absolutely cannot read then give it away. If 
not to a friend, to the local thrift shop.

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