Take Two

I’m half-way through Steve McConnell’s Code Complete 2 and I am now thoroughly bored. There’s a lot of good advice in there, but the book is just so damned big… It’s probably not helped by me being a bit of a slow reader.

Yesterday I bought and read a book called The Idler’s book of Crap Jobs. It’s a rated collection of 100 really shitty jobs, by accounts of the Idler’s readers. A few were funny, but ’twas mostly tedious reading. Luckily it was really short.

Today I’ve finally started one of the books I’ve been looking forward to read for some time. It’s called Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrel and said by Neil Gaiman to be “unquestionably the finest English novel of the fantastic written in the last seventy years“. I’m only a few chapters in, but I’ll be giving a fuller account when I’m finished.