Mmmm... stuff...

[iainjclark]

My birthday yielded The Absolute Sandman, Volume 3 (the kind of gorgeous object of desire that's so heavy, nicely bound and on good quality paper that you'd want to own it even if you weren't interested in the contents). Also Alice in Sunderland, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, unchillfiltered Laphroaig whisky (which I'm sampling as we speak), two

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[veggiesu]

Books, chocolate ad alcohol - does a birthday get any better?

The Crime Thriller thing sounds intriguing. I reckon you could make a case for three or four of those being among the "best" crime writers working today, although I'm not entirely convinced that Colin Dexter was a good writer so much as John Thaw was a good actor. And that was when Dexter was working, which he doesn't seem to be doing quite so much these days.

[iainjclark]

Marlowe ones: 'The Long Goodbye' and 'Playback'. I'm reading 'The Lady in the Lake' at the moment.