Bargain Hunter

[faustus]

I watched a clipping from a newspaper for a couple of months. It was an advert for eight Daphne Du Maurier books. She's one of those authors who has interested me, without ever quite reading her - if only as a source for three Hitchcock movies. I saw the documentary and the slightly bizarre dramaticisation of her life on earlier this year ... and wanted to read her.

Yeah. But would I? I have unread books from the 1980s. £25 seemed a good deal, but was it, really?

I lost the clipping, the deal disappeared from the Guardian website, as did the offer for Humphrey Lyttleton CDs and potatoes (not Humph potatoes, although I would buy those, there was an offer for potatoes, which might have been in The Times). [it's back again.]

Last week in The Works I was staggered to find books - including the Du Maurier, for £14. Bargain. No Birds, though.

Am I going to read them? H'mmm.

Then today, Virgin - or Zavvi or Zivva or whatever they are called now - had the complete Curb Your Enthusiam for £35 - half price what I nearly paid for it last year. I could take what I saved and see if The Guardian still has the Beethoven offer. 

H'mm.
 

I also have a large number of brussel sprouts, because they are cheap. They curry well. I wonder if they pickle? They could eke out my picalilli.

Comments

[time-freak.livejournal.com]

Thats a great deal, we have a The Works here, I might have to check that out. I'm reading Du Maurier at the moment and although some of it can be... Clunky? It can also be mesmorising at the same time. Worth looking at in my opinion. The Birds is still my favourite story of hers by a long shot though.

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

If memory serves, there is a short story collection, but not the one including "The Birds". Rebecca, Jamaica Creak,* Frenchman's Creek,** maybe The Loving Spirit, I'll Never Be Young Again, The Parasites, My Cousin Rachel, Castle Dor and The Flight of the Falcon. Will check later.


I think full price was something like £75.


* No, she ceaked of her own accord.

** Yes, I know I've manhled those two titles. It was for a punchline.***


*** Please yourself.