Randomness

[telophase]

In totally random news, one of the Roman-era books that was recommended to me after I watched Rome arrived in the mail the other day from PaperbackSwap.com. (Hadrian's Wall by William Dietrich.)

I picked it up the other day to read at lunch, and what should fall out but an airplane boarding pass stub from a flight from Denver, CO to Casper, WY. I used to live in Denver, and when I did, I spent a summer as an intern at a museum in Casper, WY.

Obviously, I was meant to have this book. Too bad the story proper starts with six pages of italics for no adequately explained reason. (I think it's meant to be a letter or written chronicle, but SIX PAGES OF ITALICS is damn hard to read.)

Comments

[bpaladdict.livejournal.com]

Other than the first six pages of italics, how is the book? It was recommended to me as "something [I'd] read" by someone who hated it. Probing got me no answers as to why he hated it or why he thought it was something I'd read.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I"m only about a chapter into it right now, since I pretty much read it in the ten minutes before I fall asleep. It hasn't captivated me yet, but it hasn't actively repelled me, either. I'm just starting to meet the characters: if I end up not caring about them, I'll bounce out of it.