‘My Last Sigh’ – Luis Bunuel’s autobiography.
Only to hand because I just dug it out for a quote on another thread.

And while hannah’s dad, you may have reservations about Holland’s ‘Rubicon’, it does has this killer sentence.

“A year later, however, when Caelius found himself particularly short of panthers, Curio thought nothing of slipping him twenty of his own.”

Makes Dallas look like a kitchen sink soap opera. The use of “particularly” is inspired writing in particular.

The Last Love Story, Rodney Hall.

Something I found in a box of books my Mum was storing in our garage while she moved houses. An OK read, I guess, if you like that sort of thing.

(Sorry, I can’t be bothered with properly typesetting the accent in emigre.)

That’s from Richard Rhodes’ Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb.

Along with its Pulitzer-prize-winning predecessor by the same author, (they’re effectively a continuation of the same book) it’s probably one of the definitive, gripping, extremely well written non-fiction accounts of definitive 20th century history.

From “Bed-sitter Cook Book”, the 1964 classic by Fragoletta Lang.

I think we’ve all felt a bit like a chinese fried liver at one time or another.

Eargle J, The Microphone Book, Second Edition, Focal Press 2004

I object in terms most strenuous to Eargle’s use of the past tense. Ribbon mics still have plenty to offer. For shame.

Not that i recall. The book has been used many times from before i was born, so it’s entirely possible. Thanks for the tip in any case.

Victoria Glendinning’s biography of Leonard Woolf

Mark – thanks for the info, maybe I will check it out. It seems as if they get the basics right (e.g. no 2nd century A.D. style legionnaries).

Quote (now I’m at work)

“Such a mapping can be stated as a rule (in other words, what we normally think of as a function), or as an enumeration {25:5, 16:4, 9:3}”

From Mellor, Stephen J, et al, “MDA Distilled: Principles of Model-Driven Architecture” (architecture as in software architecture, not built-environment).

Actually I’m not having much luck on ‘closest book’ stakes – again this is the second closest book. The closest, “Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing Building and Deploying Messaging Solutions” by Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf, only has four sentences on pg 56!

have you tried the Raan; roast leg of lamb, Kashmiri style, on page 61, finiky, but bloody good.