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Friday, 19 December 2008

At The Strand this morning I saw about a dozen Black Lizard paperbacks, several copies of each, all for $3.95. I thought these books were out of print and desirable. It seems like a deal. I didn't notice any remainder marks or anything like that.

I only bought one, The Devil Wears Wings by Harry Whittington. I don't think I've ever read a heist novel with a getaway plane before. The first line is: "They gave me the okay from the control tower and I told the girl to take it down".

I intend to read something by Philip Roth one of these days. I don't doubt that his books are good but his latest, Indignation, does not pass the first line test. I picked it up and didn't even finish the first sentence. I got this far: "About two and a half months after the well-trained divisions of North Korea, armed by the Soviets and the Chinese Communists, …".