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Originally Posted by neilmarr
Watch it, Florence. To folks like us, there's nothing so precious as rare recreational reading time. You might well be into *wasting* mode here. Let's wait to hear from other friends who've struggled through the trilogy. I'm afraid that, if I'm not hooked by page fifty, I pretty well believe I'm ploughing through crap. Ain't gonna stick with another 2K pages of this infantile first draft-style nonsense unless someone I trust here tells me that I should. Whatever, the crappy writing won't improve. Maybe this is why I'm broke ... I'd have rejected this by now had it come to me as a submission. It's sooooooooooooooooooooo boring! You think, perhaps, it's all about hype? There's even a conspiracy theory now about the author's death. Cheers. Neil
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Don't worry, if I feel I'm wasting my time I certainly won't keep reading. I won't be expecting a literary masterpiece, but if I like the characters enough and the writing (or the French translation) isn't too ghastly, I might enjoy it, who knows?
In the last few years, and especially since I got an e-reader, reading has taken the place of cinema and TV for me. I have always read a lot, but I tended to read mainstream "established" literature, and to rely on cinema and TV for more "recreational" entertainment.
But in the last 10 years or so, I have stopped going to the cinema, and more recently almost stopped watching TV. At the same time, I have started reading books that are not so great literature but that I enjoy because they are easy and comfortable to read. And since I have my Opus, I have started to buy or download books I would normally be ashamed to buy in a bookstore
