Any regular readers of this blog -and I'm making a big leap assuming that there are any ;-) - might have noticed that two books have been sitting in my 'currently reading' list for a while now. Bruce Chatwin's What Am I Doing Here is a collection of essays that I've been dipping in and out of. I'll probably get really stuck into it soon, but I'm not too worried about that one.
The other is March by Geraldine Brooks. I really want to like this novel. It won a Pulitzer Prize, its author originally comes from Australia and it's based in part on Little Women, a novel I loved as a child. March follows the story of the father from Little Women and his involvement in the Civil War.
I'm 215 pages in and I just don't know if I can be bothered going on. I don't think I've ever gotten that far in a novel and then decided to give up. But I've tried and tried and I just don't like it. Perhaps it's the fact that I've read it in bits and pieces and have been a bit distracted lately, but I've read and enjoyed a couple of other novels since starting this one. Usually if I don't like a book I drop it within the first 50 pages but I've pushed on because the elements are so right. But with a 130 pages to go, what do I do? Is life too short and are there too many other books to waste another second on this one? Or do I push on and at least feel a sense of accomplishment at getting through to the end?
I'll let the beside table decide. This book gets a week on the top of the pile. If I don't pick it up by then I'll abandon it. Maybe...
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I'm one of those guys who hates not finishing a book, no matter how much I dislike it. I had to force myself to finish Louisa May Alcott's "A Long Fatal Love Chase." And I'm now faced with the prospect of forcing myself to finish "The Club Dumas." But "Dumas" is just boring me to tears, whereas "Fatal" was somewhat entertaining in its ridiculousness. And I've come to the conclusion that the only thing worse than a bad book is a boring book.
And I'm a regular reader of your blog! I don't comment on every post, but you can be sure that I drop by every day. =]
Thanks for your comment Brandon (and for reading!).
I agree, at least bad can be funny. Boring is just... nothing.
I read your blog everyday, I have just been really really busy lately and not been doing much commenting!
Thanks for reading Kailana!
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