A Northern Line Minute

Posted on 25 April 2017 by William Leith

William Leith, author of The Hungry Years and Bits of Me Are Falling Apart, tells, in A Northern Line Minute, the darkly humorous tales of his escapades on the Tube part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelve lines of the London Underground.The Northern Line is the Black Line, and William s experience of it certainly reflects that It s the line on which he has fought with his girlfriend, lost jobs, watched football teams lose and been stuck underground It s a story of London life. New Read A Northern Line Minute Author William Leith For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr An uncomfortable short story, and I m actually quite glad I didn t read it on the Northern Line, as I think I might have wanted to get off But sure it won t stop me buying someof these shorts to celebrate 150 years of the tube.Meh.A meandering memoir ish account of the writer s relationship with the Northern Line.The writer acquaints us with his fear of being underground on the Tube at the beginning of the story, and then proceeds to tell us that he can smell something burning But is the burning smell significant, or just something in his head A variety of Tube memories are loosely held together by the narrative strand of this one fraught journey Not very tense, exciting or interesting despite the writer s atte Meh.A meandering memoir ish account of the writer s relationship with the Northern Line.The writer acquaints us with his fear of being underground on the Tube at the beginning of the story, and then proceeds to tell us that he can smell something burning But is the burning smell significant, or just something in his head A variety of Tube memories are loosely held together by the narrative strand of t...Near perfect depiction of the anxious mind, framed by a journey taken on the underground, of which our narrator has a phobia The way the narration shifts from immediate sensation to disjointed memory mimics the ...Not my favourite this year I picked it up because I was intrigued by the whole collection and am most familiar with the Northern Line, but it was fairly disappointing I didn t particularly write the writing long paragraphs, a somewhat boring monologue and I find strange the idea o...William Leith narrates this autobiographical story, telling of how he stepped onto a Northern Line train and started to sense that something was wrong As the account continues, you can tell that something bad is going to happen and this is what the whole story is building up to.I found myself feeling sorry for the author immediately, because he is evidently claustrophobic, and talks a lot about how anxious he gets when he uses the London Underground, and he talks a lot about his relief when he William Leith narrates this autobiographical story, telling of how he stepped onto a Northern Line train and started to sense that something was wrong As the account continues, you can tell that something bad is going to happen and this is what the whole story is building up to.I found myself feeling sorry for the author immediately, because he is evidently claustrophobic, and talks a lot about how anxious he gets when he uses the London Underground, and he talks a lot about his rel...This is one of the books now published by penguin to celebrate 150 years London Underground I chose the one about the Northern Line, knowing it is the line that goes deepest underground and even having a couple of ghosts However I was surprised Various authors have been invited to write about a particular line William Leith writes an intersting account how he actually does not like travel...It s a rather odd little book Quite like something you d read in high school and they d tell you to analyse the language features It s basically just a long description of William Leith s single experience on the Underground, with a li...A short book about the thoughts and worries of a man on the underground He s already scared when he first gets on but then begins to think he can smell something burning.I ve never liked the idea of being on the underground so I think that made...This is a good, and very short addition to the Penguin series published in 2013 about the London subway lines.It s filled with bits about the author s memories of yore but mainly, which is the theme this books circles, of the current fright he is experiencing ...excellent, I ve always liked his writing, it was frightening and t00 short Read it in an hour

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25 April 2017

William Leith