Something I never do
The big post about my holiday that I said about might take a while. Turns out we took about 2000 photos… oops. So it might take a while to look through and pick out my favourites.
In the mean time, I’m going to blog about the book I’m reading, which you can see in my sidebar. I’m going to be blunt, and I don’t often just say this about a book. But it has to be said. It’s really boring. It started out okay. Then it got good when he committed the crime referenced in the title. That happened about 70 pages in. I’m up to page 256 now, and I swear, all that’s happened is him angst about it. And it’s a classic book, which means the language is pretty heavy going. Also the font is horrible. I don’t know if I want to carry on with it.
Which leaves me with a dilemma. Should I just give up on this book? I never give up on books. Okay, I did for Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre, but I hate classic romance books so they don’t count (strangely I like TV shows of them though). I’ll have that horrible feeling of incompleteness, and it’ll haunt me. I’ll feel a pang of guilt whenever I see my bookshelf. Because the other thing I never ever do is throw away books even if I don’t like them. I’d also like to read at least one book from the 1800s in my life, and this is the closest I’ve ever come to finishing one (except for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and I don’t think that counts).
But then, on the other hand, it’ll probably take months to finish it. And I go back to school soon, I’ll have no time for reading then. I’ll be stuck with it for ages. And I have loads of other books to read, because I keep buying them and take forever to get round to reading them all. Also it’s really boring. Really, really boring. I’d be much happier moving onto another book, like Animal Farm. I’ve wanted to read that for ages.
Oh decisions!
August 15th, 2010 at 4:19 am
I know I said I didn’t finish Crime and Punishment because of the end of the school year/finals, but I wasn’t eager to get back into it (and, in fact, didn’t). I got through 3/4 or so of it, and it had z pattern of long, boring parts mixed with a few very interesting parts. I can’t say whether or not you should finish it, because I didn’t get to the very end. I would like to continue it later on though, because I’ve heard good things about it as a whole…
If you have other books you want to read more, I think you should read those :)
August 15th, 2010 at 2:09 pm
I don’t like not finishing books either, but sometimes they bore me so much I just do give up on them. Usually when I feel like that, I read the last few pages to see if it gets any better and if not, at least then I know how it ends. XD
I planned to read Animal Farm but I didn’t think 1984 was that good so I’m unsure about bothering with it. -_-