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Originally Posted by issybird
I’m listening to Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz. My attention was caught by a stellar review in the WaPo for the second book in the series and when I checked, a bunch of my GR friends absolutely loved this.
Well. I keep plodding along, but so far, I hate it. The device is a book within a book, the interior book is supposed to be about one of the greatest fictional detectives of all times. It’s terrible. Set in 1955 England, the anachronisms keep on coming. The story itself is a series of info dumps and stock characters. So I think there has to be a payoff in terms of the relevance of this dreadful detective novel to the framing story, hence all the love, but how long do I have to put in? At this point, there has to be one heck of a payoff and one that accounts for the sheer awfulness of the novel within the novel. I’m having my doubts.
Has anyone here read it? Should I keep going? Or stop throwing good listening time after bad?
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I bailed out on this one after 2 or 3 chapters. Not worth my reading time.