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Originally Posted by WillieMcIntyre
a serial killer (yawn) who is always one step ahead of the law. He enjoys toying with the cops and everytime they think they have him cornered, he thwarts their plans.
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Just like every serial killer in fiction ever. I absolutely hate movies / series about serial killers that are popping up like mushrooms lately, and I'd never read a book about one.
I find this modern fascination with serial killers idiotic. Just goes to show you how idiotic modern society has become, it's geeky and uncool to be smart / curious / knowledgeable (and as people are taught from elementary school geeks are to be despised and never get the girl), while all of a sudden killing people on mass is cool !?
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Originally Posted by WillieMcIntyre
I was reading the last few pages while waiting for a train and nearly threw myself under the Glasgow/Edinburgh express.
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You just made me think of an advantage of paper books over e-readers which never occured to me before.
If you had been reading a paper book which turned out to be total crap, you could have thrown it under the train in frustration. You also could have thrown it on the ground and stomped on it, or ripped it page from page, or flung it as far away as you could, or tried flushing it down a public toilet, or set it on fire and laughed hysterically while watching it burn, or done a number of other frustration-relieving things to it.
Now as you were reading it on an e-reader (I presume), you had no way of relieving your frustration (without destroying valuable electronic property) other than pressing the delete button, which is obviously not very satisfying.
So if the book had been only a little worse you might have had thrown yourself under the train and ended your life tragically, all because of a stupid book.
So how to solve this problem ? Well this is what I suggest (although there may be other solutions) to all you out there - if you are reading a book you are not
absolutely sure you are going to like, you should carry with you a printed out picture of the author (like a portret) and a .357 Magnum. Then if you don't like the ending, you just take out your portret / target and put some hot lead right between the eyes. If you're still feeling cheated and frustrated after that, take some gasoline and pour it over the picture, and then set it on fire with a match or lighter and watch it burn.
If that kind of wonderfully brutal and excessive violence still doesn't calm you down, then go watch some "Sledge Hammer" episodes. The end.