T.C. Boyle’s Water Music and Sleep Remedy


Today, I start reading “Water Music” by T.C. Boyle. A fiction between 1795 and 1805, about the adventure of the Scottish explorer Mungo Park.


The review written by Salman Rushdie about this book is very interesting: “It is a book in the worst possible taste, serves no useful purpose … Its title will make Handel turn in his grave … ” Well, let me see what’s happening inside the book.


At the beginning, Ned Rise – a drunken man woke up with a headache in London. At the same time, Mungo Park – an explorer almost has his eyes being removed in Sahara. If it was not Johnson’s intercession, he would be blind.


I am still at the beginning of the book, I have not known what did Johnson do. But one thing I know about him is his voice. His voice is a sleep remedy to the Baronet. I’ll stop here and wish you have a good night sleep and a wild dream of African landscape.


“It got to the point where the Baronet couldn’t drift off at night without a cup of hot milk and garlic, and the soothing basso profundo of Johnson’s voice as he narrated a tale of thatched huts, leopards and hyenas, of volcanoes spewing fire across the sky …”

Water Music by T.C. Boyle

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