The Reading Vent & Rant Thread

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by Renate

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50 pages in I realized that I had read it before, but that it hadn't left much of an impression.
It turned out to be one of those books where I wished that I turned the page and a meteor had hit and killed everyone.
Spoiler: No meteor.

I've had authors I really enjoyed and and then read a book and thought how did that get published? Did the agent / editor / publisher get greed for sales over-ride common sense?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Renate

I just read "My Cousin Rachel", Daphne du Maurier, because I couldn't remember if I had already read it.
50 pages in I realized that I had read it before, but that it hadn't left much of an impression.
It turned out to be one of those books where I wished that I turned the page and a meteor had hit and killed everyone.
Spoiler: No meteor.

A Passage to India is a book where all the non-Indians should have sank on the way to India. It would be a much better book about the ship going down.

[Sirtel]

You know you've been fiddling with your ebooks too much when reading the word "calibre" in a book you have to pause and try to recall what else it means besides the computer program...