Follow us on Twitter 'I Never Met a Straight Line I Didn't Like' by Mary Gaudin and Matthew Arnold. Photo / Supplied What The Viva Team Are Reading This Summer Books to buy, borrow and be lost in Wednesday Dec. 23, 2020 "I'm looking forward to sitting down with I Never Met a Straight Line I Didn't Like, the second book from Mary Gaudin and Matthew Arnold (and featured in Viva Volume Two). A collector’s tome in the making, it documents the modern architectural movement that rippled through Christchurch in the 1960s, with 12 incredible homes from the period designed by Warren & Mahoney, Ian Athfield, Nicholas Kennedy and more.