Скачать или смотреть The Tin Drum Chapter 1 by Günter Grass (read by Tom O'Bedlam)

Yesterday Günter Grass died in Lübeck at age 87. This is the opening of his most famous novel. There are a few fluffs - I'm sorry about that - all I can say is that they make no difference to the sense.. I hope it will encourage you to read the rest of the book. It is on Amazon in printed form and as an ebook.

Earlier in the day I had been thinking about reading this first chapter of The Tin Drum. Then, in what could be thought an act of providence, the news reported that Günter Grass had died. Then I thought that if I was going to read it, then I should read it that same day before I went to bed. All the same I believe in a random universe, but when there's an opportunity to make it appear less random then I'm willing to take it.

People don't read any more. They don't have the attention span. From what I've gathered, if you don't start reading books before puberty then it's unlikely that you ever will. I mean reading in the recreational and educational sense, not just cornflake packets or the instructions that came with your garden furniture which appear to be written in a pidgin english anyway.