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Tips for keeping the brain limber

This one comes from flatmate Ella, it happened to a friend of hers (not deliberately).

  1. 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.
  2. Buy it as an audio book, with chapters as separate tracks.
  3. 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.)

This was written by tikitu. Posted on Saturday, May 16, 2009, at 10:59 am. Tagged . Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

2 Comments

  1. S. glaber wrote:

    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.

    Monday, May 18, 2009 at 4:02 am | Permalink
  2. tikitu wrote:

    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.

    Monday, May 18, 2009 at 3:19 pm | Permalink