the year of reading dangerously by andy miller

Written with characteristic sharp and honest humour, The Year of Reading Dangerously is an affirmation of the pleasure of reading and a challenge to everyone who loves books but has forgotten how to read. It becomes unavoidable to consider how we buy, borrow, steal and generally use and abuse books for our own complicated ends. We travel from the mires of inaccessibility, incomprehensibility, commodification and confusion to moments of enlightened, ecstatic wonder. A comparative reading of The Da Vinci Code and Moby Dick somehow seems inevitable, the Charles Arrowby cookbook becomes a terrifying possibility and an explanation of the curious unreadability of Catch-22 is attempted.

The Year of Reading Dangerously is an inspired and witty tour of literature from all genres: classic, cult and Dan Brown. But then again, who hasn't? How many books have you claimed to have read but never actually finished, or started, or even heard of? Books you've really wanted to read, or should have read, but never had the time, or the inclination? Tackling the canon single-handedly, Miller decides to rectify his twenty odd years of lies and silence his nagging guilt and become the literate man he's always claimed himself to be. Really great': sound familiar? Andy Miller has been living a lie. 'I loved the writing and the characterisation, oh, and the plot - yeah, all really pithy. A funny, scrupulously honest account of one man's quest to reverse 20 years of lies and read the books he's always claimed to have read.

The year of reading dangerously by andy miller