I’m reading Treasure Island. Nothing unusual there. In my life, I’ve probably read it a few times, albeit mostly as a child. So what’s different this time?
Well, this time I’m reading it online using DailyLit. I discovered DailyLit in the way I discovered a lot of things – via Stumbleupon and it’s very cool. Basically it delivers books (for free in most cases) in chunks either by email or by RSS feed. I’m currently doing Treasure Island on RSS. Not bad at all and quite readable given that I often find it difficult to read eBooks and such like.
I quite like Robert Louis Stevenson’s works. I’ve read Kidnapped recently as well. His books are hard hitting, fast moving and there are rarely any tedious love scenes, romance or any of the kind of things which nork up a good adventure story. Straight to the killing and the pirates. A winning formula in my book.
Back to the non-fictional world, the weekend is looming. Nothing planned this weekend, which is quite nice. There’s been a fair amount of stuff on in recent weeks and it wouldn’t do us any harm to have no fixed schedule this weekend. My only commitment is providing a training course for about an hour and a half at the Spartans Academy tomorrow morning on how to use WordPress to update their site. Nothing too taxing either for them or for me hopefully.
Have a good weekend.
on Jan 16th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
It could be a little cool for any outdoor activities on the weekend.
Maybe a little more reading
Or maybe a DVD based on a RLS story—live the book
Enjoy
on Jan 17th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Do you know, I am embarassed to admit it, but I have never read Treasure Island or Kidnapped. Isn’t that dreadful? I must go off and remedy that at once. I have read the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, does that claw me back any credibility points?
on Jan 29th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
“His books are hard hitting, fast moving and there are rarely any tedious love scenes, romance or any of the kind of things which nork up a good adventure story. Straight to the killing and the pirates.”
AHA. Thank you. That explains PERFECTLY why I could never be arsed with Treasure Island or Kidnapped!
I had a look at DailyLit a while ago, but I figured it would be no use at work because I’d just be frustrated at getting bite-size pieces of a good book. Were I to read fiction at work, I’d want a book in my handbag so I could sneak off to the loos.
That’s how I finished the last couple of chapters of Lord of the Rings, after all…