Before when I wrote about Dirk Benedict’s books I said that Amazon.co.uk didn’t list ‘And Then We Went Fishing’ on their UK site and that if you wanted to buy this book you would have to go to Amazon.com.

Well I checked today and you can now get it on Amazon.co.uk but if you want to buy it you better be pretty rich. It is listed as from £366.98!

Amazon.com is a bit cheaper at from $199.98!

That’s just totally outrageous but I guess it is market forces prevailing.

Anyway, if you really want this book then you can get it as an eBook for $8.96 at eReader.com

A much much cheaper option.

Description from the site:

From Dirk Benedict, author of Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy, comes an equally brilliant autobiographical look at fatherhood, fate, and forgiveness.

And Then We Went Fishing is an intertwining of two unique and engrossing stories. The first revolves around Dirk and his wife Toni’s unexpectedly complicated attempt at home birthing, and the second around Dirk’s coming of age in Montana and the violent death of his father. Tales of love, friendship, hatred, and fatherhood careen together to explode in front of him in the taking of his dad’s life and the birth of his first child.

Dirk Benedict’s writing style is lively, creative, and always engaging. His use of humor, pathos, and imagery is masterful. He has taken two rites of passage in his life and woven them together to produce a story that’s every bit as entertaining as it is moving. Given the author’s unique storytelling ability and well-honed sense of timing, And Then We Went Fishing will keep the reader hooked from page one to its powerful and poignant conclusion.

“Life and death are the themes of this intriguing book…. The intertwining of what happened in the past with the events of the present makes for an excellent story. The humor, drama, and frustration that Benedict experiences results in a moving book for all levels of readers.”
LIBRARY JOURNAL

Congratulations to Shilpa for winning Celebrity Big Brother. A well deserved win in my opinion and with 63% of the vote a convincing win at that.

It was interesting to see that the top 3 celebrities weren’t British. If you include Ian in that (he’s Welsh) then it’s the top 4.

That says a lot about our so called UK celebrities and their behaviour in the house.

On Russell’s program after the show there was a noteable absence of Jade, Jo, Daniel and Jackiey.

It came as no surprise that Jo was evicted from the Celebrity Big Brother house but I was surprised that she showed no remorse for any of her actions in the house seemlingly comfortable with her behavior.

She has been reported as saying she wouldn’t change a thing that she said or did.

That says it all really and demonstrates exactly what she is like.

Just when you thought it couldn’t get anymore embarrassing for Channel 4, they have now announced that due to human error where it said on the TV vote to save Shilpa instead of vote to evict Shilpa they have now had to cancel all votes and start again.

Channel 4 are offering a refund to people who had already voted and more details can found on their website here.

I am sure (correct me if I am wrong) that you used to be able to browse the Channel 4 Big Brother forum without being a member. They encourage you to discuss news stories on their site but now you have to sign up and join.

That wouldn’t be so bad but each new member has to be approved by the moderators before you can view the forum and they say that can take up to 4 days. Celebrity Big Brother will probably be over before you can even get in.

If you want to know what people are discussing about Big Brother but can’t be bothered to wait or are impatient like me then head on over to the Digital Spy Big Brother Forum