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Will

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  • Birthday 03/08/1982

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    Moby Dick
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    The Netherlands
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    Aside from reading I enjoy painting, photography, video games and from time to time I even get to work on my novel... which technically I could be doing right now... I also work on perfecting my chocolate chip cookies and adding to my collection of tattoos, not at the same time though, that'd be fraught with danger and slightly unhygienic.

    I would also say I like music, but given that it's a statement used by anyone from the most dedicated and discerning to the moron who likes music in the same way that a sheep likes grass, and is therefore virtually meaningless, I'll refrain. But yeah, music's good too.

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  1. The Shepherd's Dog by Iron & Wine. It's quiet and relaxed, it's too hot for noisy music right now. I've had a copy of it kicking around for ages but I try to buy the things I like, especially when it's a less well-known band.
  2. I finished NW by Zadie Smith and read Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby while I waited for a delivery of new books. I was pleasantly surprised by Juliet, Naked, I haven't particularly enjoyed much else by Nick Hornby but my wife ordered me to read this one and I liked it. I promised myself I'd read my new books in whatever sequence they arrived in the post, so now I'm reading Moby Dick.
  3. It's horribly obvious but if I could write like Shakespeare I'd be pretty pleased with myself.
  4. There's a couple of books that I usually end up reading at least once every few years and a couple more that I'll return to specific chapters of. Sometimes I want to read again something I know and enjoy rather than pick up something new. I know someone who is militant about not reading the same book twice, I'm pretty sure she does the same thing with films too. It seems to me that it's a fairly futile stab at coming to terms with the countless texts that one could read but inevitably never will. Still, each to their own.
  5. One. I've tried reading more but I can't, whichever I'm enjoying less gets ignored because when I have the time to read I inevitably read the one I prefer.
  6. I could never finish that either, I had to read it as part of my English Literature course at college and my tutor soured it for me, actually that tutor instilled a probably undeserved dislike of Atwood in general. I nearly gave up on Money by Martin Amis but in the review I'd read the reviewer suggested giving it until page 50 before quitting, I was so glad I did. I rarely abandon any books, the only two that spring to mind are one called 'The Serial Killers Club' by Jeff Povey, which was awful, and Catch-22 which was ruined for me when found out how it ended.
  7. I suppose it varies a lot depending on where you buy from and the popularity of the book. I recently visited an actual bookshop for the first time in ages and bought two newly published fiction paperbacks by popular authors and it cost me the best part of 30 pounds. I live in the Netherlands in an area with no local bookshop, and my closest has a very small English language section, these factors drive the prices ridiculously high.
  8. Generally I'd prefer to read it first but stupid me only just made the connection that it's Baz Luhrman who did Romeo & Juliet with Dicaprio (which I thought was fantastic) so I'd be willing to watch it without reading the book first.
  9. Only The Good Die Young, originally by Billy Joel covered by Me First & The Gimme Gimmes. I don't mind Joel too much (blame my parents) but a song like that sounds so much better played by a slightly questionable punk band.
  10. Now it's My Device, earlier it was Root For Ruin by Les Savy Fav. Can't settle on any particular sound at the moment.
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