Yes ... the third of my now famous " Worst" series is here at last ... if you don't remember, I've already warned you about the Worst Bird Book for Young People and The Worst " Big Year" Book .... and now, I've picked the Worst Foreign Bird Guide from a huge pile of not-so bloody-awful ones ! There it is up there ... you will, if you are a faithful reader of this heap of tripe, have seen it before in an entirely different context .... the sheer impossibility of that image. But WHY have I picked this bilingual Spanish/English ID guide ? Well folks, it is the ILLUSTRATIONS. Let's have a shufty at some of them shall we ? WHAT DO WE WANT .... COLOURS ! WHEN DO WE WANT THEM ? WHEN WE'RE OUT BLOODY BIRDING YOU OLD FOOL !!! But .. that's not all ...look at this litany of not-knowing-much .... There's a lot more of "that sort of thing" .. it doesn't exude confidence does it ? One more thing ... it's the sort of book you might need to carry around with you ... but it's a couple of inches too wide and tall to fit comfortably in any reasonable-sized pocket. Just saying ! On the plus side, if this was the only book in the world, you could probably learn Spanish from it .. or if you ARE a Spanish speaker, you could equally learn English with it. In spite of what you might think, I haven't put this book on here just to show you my (not so) brilliant Spanish, it is genuinely duff. No. It's just that Spanish is a truly fine language, and a very sensible one too, except that there's too much of the subjunctive. And their music is wizard ... this is about Swallows .. golondrinas.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorThat's the author up there ... I was young and sprightly then. Archives
October 2022
|