It’s sometimes interesting to see what people read on the tube in a morning. This morning there were 2 people reading Metro (the free London newspaper), one guy reading one of the broadsheet newspapers, a guy reading Nick Hornby’s “About a Boy”, a guy reading a biography about Tony Hancock (When the wind changed, The life and death of Tony Hancock by Cliff Goodwin), one reading a Java book (J2EE Technology in Practice) and one lady filling in London Underground refund forms (2 or 3 of them).
Every now and again, there are some more unusual books to be seen, like the Tony Hancock example this morning. A few months ago now I saw a guy reading “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler. It was a big book, much bigger than I’d expected (694 pages according to amazon). I knew the book existed – we’d learnt about it at school in history (that upset my Dad as what I called history, he remembered), but I’d expected it to be some short propaganda booklet, not a 3inch think paperback.
