The news is full of quotes taken from Tony Blair’s memoirs entitled “A Journey”, released in the UK yesterday.
Apparently the books have been flying off the shelves. Which surprises me. I’m glad I’m not a publisher, I wouldn’t have thought it would have been a bestseller in this current climate and certainly wouldn’t have risked a rumoured 4.6m advance (is ALL of that plus proceeds going to charity I wonder?).
I’m not going to buy it. I’ve seen the quotes I need and am not at all interested in the detail. We already know about his love/hate relationship with Brown, so that’s nothing new. He was clearly never going to apologise for going to war and his alcohol addiction? OMG – I really need to seek help if half a bottle of wine and maybe a whisky or a gin and tonic was even worth mentioning! Or was that before breakfast?
I slightly feel that whilst we are still reeling from the effects of the last governments behaviour (regardless of whose fault it was) and his ongoing money making activities, to bring out such a high profile book now is unnecessarily rubbing salt into wounds….but perhaps that’s just me.
Thu, Sep 2, 2010
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