Tips for keeping the brain limber
This one comes from flatmate Ella, it happened to a friend of hers (not deliberately).
- Choose a nice complicated mystery novel you haven’t read before. One where you’ll have to keep track of lots and lots of clues and remember who knows what when and so on.
- Buy it as an audio book, with chapters as separate tracks.
- Shuffle.
(B.S. Johnson wrote a book designed to be read this way, The Unfortunates. It was published with the chapters separately bound, in a box.)
Comments
I'm a 'fan' who hasn't actually read anything he wrote. Like a Fiery Elephant is wonderful though; I'm not tempted by The Unfortunates (too gloomy) but Christie is on the wishlist.
Figures that you'd be a Johnson fan. I read Christie Malry's own double-entry a few years ago, but wasn't as impressed as I expected to be. Nice to see The Unfortunates has been republished, though -- the 1969 edition is almost unobtainable, I think.