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I want to buy a book - The Curse Of Lono - but before I buy it, I want to have a little look inside it. After all, it is £29.99 and a book of such costs needs more than a moments consideration. Unfortunately the book in question is sealed - wrapped in a cling-film safety-blanket.

If I had written this post three weeks ago I would have used it's cling-film safety-blanket as a metaphor for my own life. I would have expressed the frustration I feel towards the safeness of my own world - the way my blog, with it's one-trick-pony theme keeps me safe - keeps my stats steady and my virtual popularity undiminished. The way my internet world keeps me safe from the scary people that live outside my door. The way my weekly visits to the psychotherapist have become routine, comfortable, safe - 'I'm depressed ... I can't do that'. The way my main income comes from the pictures I sell via my picture libraries and so the drive and ambition needed to do 'real world' photography is un-required. I would have suggested that the books cling-film safety-blanket may keep it safe - may save it from undoable harm - but it also keeps it stuck in Waterstones prison. Three weeks ago, I would have suggested all of this - but it's not three weeks ago, it is today, and I no-longer write such things.

I want to buy a book -  but before I buy it, I want to have a little look inside.

Comments

[The Girl]

Would I sound demented and corny if I said that your site is profound?

Probably.

But it is.

And quite beautiful too

[andre]

thank you

x

[Luke]

nice post, andre.
if you have patience, you could always order it from your library to view; then purchase if needed. ;)

[junky]

ummm, have you tried asking the bookshop to unwrap it? they can always re-cling it if necessary. when i worked in the bookshop we did that for customers all the time.

[davidk]

It's OK, certainly worth having if you are a HST or Ralph Steadman completist, but not as much reading as the lengthier works. Probably not worth £29.99 though. Would you like some pages scanned and sent to you for a more informed opinion?

Regards

[Gordon]

So, to continue your own metaphor.

Buy the book. Don't look at it first. Break out of the 'wrapping' and see things anew.

[andre]

davidk - I do like HST

Gordon - I like the way your mind works

[pink]

damn right andre - its like women innit. you wouldnt marry one til you'd had a look inside, would you?

*fetches a lamp and a speculum*

[andre]

pink- I have never seen inside a woman - at times of intimacy my eyes are always closed

[pink]

well you should pick up prettier women then, andre! ;)

[andre]

Pink - All the women I have dated have been pretty.

[except for a girl from school - karen bear - she was an unattractive midget with enormous breasts - but I was young then - and her sexual education lessons have stood me in good stead]

[pink]

well i'm baffled then - why do you close your eyes?
there is nothing more intimate or sexy than looking into your lovers eyes while you "pleasure" them.

god im so quaint.

[andre]

Pink - do you not close your eyes when kissing? do you not do your seven times table when making love? Do you not light a ciggy after and wonder to yourself .. ummmm wonder If i should write a post about that?

perhaps it's just me.

[pink]

oh yeh i close my eyes when i kiss mouths - i get scared otherwise - spesh if they have their eyes open too, its like "wah!"... no i do not do my 7 times table when i make love... i do not make love, i fuck and get fucked.

but yes, i do light a ciggy after and wonder if i should write a post about it. and then i do.

ha!

[andre]

Pink - i feel i may write a small post about this

[pink]

i feel that i may do as well!

andre - do you have a folder full of stuff that you write and then never have the nerve to publish?

*does*

[andre]

I post about 1 in 3 of the things I write - and then I delete half the things I post

[late night blogging is not meant for a boy like me - and I'm trying really hard not to reveal so much anymore - become a man of mystery - Grrrrrrrr]

[pink]

i bet you're ace in bed.

[andre]

shut the blinkin flip up - am a shy person - and quite awful in the ... how the hell did we end up having this conversation when my original post was about BOOKS?

[Robin]

I'm with Gordon on this one, look at it 'new', it will be great, a disappointment or most likely something in between but to continue your metaphor life's like that, great bits and disappointments but the bad bits make the good bits gooderer
("shut the blinkin flip up" is this the same chap that did the tit wank post?)

[andre]

Robin - do not say that vulgar word on my blog - The last time I said it, my whole life fell apart.

[pink]

sorry. it was the "grr"

*apologizes to all andre's stalkers*

[Vaughan]

The book is a tenner cheaper on Amazon. We, Andre's readers, could club together and buy it for him.

PS: I keep my eyes closed for everything at all times. It's easier that way.

[Robin]

Apologies Andre and I think your doing a great job of pulling it all back together again.

[andre]

see see - vaughan [a man of class] closes his eyes too - see see

pink - Robin - nothing to Apologies about ...

Have ordered book from Amazon - hurrah

[Robin]

Hurrah! (but if it's crap, it's not my fault)

[aioseh]

i used to say that to my therapist..."i can't do that."

then i started seeing this doctor because i was very sick. and he asked me to do a lot of hard things. he would say "don't tell me you CAN'T. just tell me you WON'T."

i eventually learned that he was right and just started buying the book, so to speak. it was the best money i ever invested.

[andre]

hi aioseh - yes I think I've come to the point in my life when I can no longer use the 'I can't do that' excuse and it's time I just started buying the books [tis quite scary - hense the reason I'm still up at 2am every blinkin night]

[J]

Uh ... I know that if Amazon.com has that book, then you can click on the "search/view inside" (or something like that) for sections of the inside contents! Quite a good tool ...

[J]

OOPS just read that you DID order it from Amazon ...

well then ...

:(

[Darcy]

Hi Andre,

I have to say, I agree with Pink.
I bet you are ace in bed....I really do.
And I don't care if we were talking about books....this is much more fun.

[Darcy]

Btw...your hair tells me all I need to know on the above matter. Love it.
You have incredible, gorgeous, wrap my fingers in and never let go kind of hair.
Just thought you should know.

[andre]

Hi J - yes I ordered one from amazon

Darcy - behave yourself

[Robin]

ANDRE! good gawd man, whatever your on I want a bottle, it's clearly making you a babe magnet!
(Grrrrrrr)

[andre]

Robin - I am not a babe magnet - I am an idiot - please try to remember this - thank you

[Robin]

Well Andre I'll do my best to remember but it will be hard, you do hide the fact so cleverly behind an intelligent, artistic, erudite facade.

[M&M]

I am re-he-he-he-he-eally wanting to meet you or see you Andre. Everyone seems to know how handsome and what a hot catch u r.
Come on, post a pic of urself. Or at least a self-portrait.

And about the book, I am happy that you decided to get it. U might as well splash out the cash and get the hash...oops book. Sorry, freudian slip.

[andre]

M&M - am not handsome [these people who leave such 'GOOD IN BED' comments are crazy people - take no notice of them]

http://www.abeautifulrevolution.com/photos/doodles/abeautifulrevolution.html

[M&M]

Ok Andre.
u just made things worse.
I mean better, or like worse.
In the sense that now I know ur hot.

sending your pic to GLOBAL_MICROSOFT.
Hope thats ok with u?