I read just about anything that can be read.
I read the back of the cereal box every time I have cereal.
I read the user manual of any new device. Yes! The entire booklet.
I read leaflets enclosed in medicine boxes, you know, the one about side effects and all.
In short, I read every word of practically every printed/written matter.
Yet, I skipped whole sections of Robin Cook’s Intervention. I was so bored by the book. What a disappointment considering my expectations from the author. What was he thinking? Riding the Dan Brown wave? More precisely, riding the Dan Brown-induced threat-to-Christianity wave? I’d barely gotten through The Lost Symbol before I swore off these history+Christianity combos. And then came Intervention, that too when I was really lusting for familiar medical action.
Now which author is going to follow suit? Forsythe? Follet? No, please not Grisham. Calling all for an intervention before things start getting outta hand!
Egads! The Lost Symbol, I almost managed to make it to yet another year without remembering...Remembering what? That I had forever scarred my brain cells by reading that drivel.That book almost made me swear off reading for good! And to think I bought a hard cover, A HARD COVER!
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I cant get through fiction nowadays because of that. There's a Game of Thrones paperback lying on my nightstand taunting me.
Rule #1: Never buy hardbacks...unless it is 'The Joy of Cooking', that too just to squish those ants that are marching towards your apple pie or, in your case, for building biceps, et all.
ReplyDeleteRule #2: Always always believe in fiction. Otherwise, you'd have to quit reading Purple Theory.
Rule #3: Never read books that have been nominated for awards or have won awards. Case in point - The God of small things.
LOL at your comment Nats! The God of Small Things --- ugh! And I swore off those Dan Brown kinda books too...I really truely hope grisham doesnt follow suit...although his latest books are getting utterly boring.
ReplyDeleteThank goodness, there are others who share my view :)
ReplyDeleteI too love Grisham, but, true, quite a few of his books are downright boring. 'The testament' is one of them - puts you to sleep :) 'Skipping Christmas' was a nice change from all the lawyerly stuff that he usually rights. However, my favorite always is 'The Firm' :)