Lloyd Langford

Wow.

And I just had that and then read my book.

It's a book that I found in a op shop charity shop.

It's called like the two best American mystery stories of 2004.

So it's like a compendium of

They're all different authors and I've picked up these anthologies before and the standard's pretty good.

But the one I was reading in the hotel was a guy that was like trying to do like a Sherlock Holmes kind of story.

And it was real hard work.

I think maybe he's one of those where the copyright is just, because it's like so old, the copyright has reverted to public use or whatever.

But it's just so turgid and verbose.

And like, I think because a lot of them are like contemporary, like crime bank robberies or whatever, scams or whatever.

And then going into this Sherlock Holmes one, I was like, oh, fuck this.

Like, it's just, it's really like hard going.

But I feel compelled to read all of them, even if I'm not enjoying them, because they're only short stories.

Yeah.

The room's ready, and I go up to the room, and I think the young people call it bed rot.

I put the robe on.

Yeah.

I get undressed first.

I don't put the robe on over my clothes.