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By: Clive James

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

In 2010 Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that "if you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do", James moved his library to his house in Cambridge, where he would "live, read, and perhaps even write". James is the award-winning author of dozens of works of literary criticism, poetry, and history, and this volume contains his reflections on what may well be his last reading list.

A look at some of James' old favorites as well as some of his recent discoveries, this book also offers a revealing look at the author himself, sharing his evocative musings on literature and family and on living and dying.

As thoughtful and erudite as the works of Alberto Manguel and as moving and inspiring as Randy Pausch's The Last Lecture and Will Schwalbe's The End of Your Life Book Club, this valediction to James' lifelong engagement with the written word is a captivating valentine from one of the great literary minds of our time.

©2015 Clive James (P)2015 Audible, Inc.

Brilliant mind and voice!

Such a monumental range of literary knowledge and insights into culture and human behavior. Clive James led an absolutely fascinating life and narrates his writing with a resoundingly sober voice and quintessential humor-a consummate performance. A book to listen and learn from over and over again.

Another classic

What can one say after listening to another erudite summary from this unique commentator: except marvellous in so many ways.

Clive James the one and only

Anything I have read or listened to makes me wish I had found him earlier