Ron Naveen

I lost this book. I don't know where. I usually hate losing books but I have to admit there is some relief in losing this one. Its the story of a lawyer who never liked being a lawyer and whose childhood hobby of bird-watching had grown into a full-blown penguin obsession.

Detail, enlivened by passion, makes for an interesting natural history book, but a lawyer wrote this and its dry, dry, dry. A couple of pages is devoted to the etymology of the word 'penguin'. Is it from the Welsh pen gwyn, 'white head' (I would have thought this unlikely being as penguins have black heads) or is it from the ... or perhaps from the.... And then Spanish spell it thusly, but in the Portuguese it differs in this way... and yet another obvious variation in ten other languages *yawn*.

Also I didn't need endless reminders that these penguins shoot out pink semi-liquid shit in any and all directions and don't mind who they hit.

If I find this book again I will probably 'have' to finish reading it because it wasn't bad enough to throw across the room, but gee, no more pink shit, history of some expedition to kill seals, or stuff about derivation of words please.

I've put a spoiler flag on this because the excitement of pink projectile shit is like the high point of interest as far as I read, and I wouldn't want to spoil it for anyone!… (más)