I reckon 75% at least of a book has to be omitted from the screen version, and there's no point in agonizing about this once you've taken the money.

I'm never going to complain about receiving free early copies of books, because clearly there's nothing to complain about, but it does introduce a rogue element into one's otherwise carefully plotted reading schedule. ...

Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through, but you get distracted by life events, e.g., books arriving in the mail/World War III, and you are temporarly deflected from your chosen path.

At least at that point they had no problem with the accounting.

There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.

Well being as there's no other place around the place, I reckon this must be the place, I reckon.

Yes, yes, I know all the jokes. What else could I have expected at Highbury? But I went to Chelsea and to Tottenham and to Rangers, and saw the same thing: that the natural state of a football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.