Question for a Friday

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Inspired by something in a post on matociquala's journal, and also by boredom: what was the last book you threw across the room,* and why?

(I can't really recall mine, because I haven't really been able to get into a non-manga, non-audio book in ages. I'm currently reading Chain Mail: Addicted to You [English adaptation done by rachelmanija :D], and it's definitely not a throw-at-the-wall candidate.)


* Metaphorically speaking, naturally. The last book you gave up on or hated, or whatever. :D

Comments

[wyrdness.livejournal.com]

I had to keep reading Wicked until the end to see if it got any better. I thought the beginning was a bit iffy, then I quite liked the bit when Elphaba and Glinda were at school, then it all went a bit downhill again.

I think Wicked raised some interesting thoughts/ ideas, but they aren't the kind of thoughts and ideas I like to be distracted with when reading a book for fun.

There's a sequel to Wicked now, which I look at in disgust every time I walk past it in Borders, depsite never having read it.

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

Yes I liked the part with her and Glinda as well. But then it just got worse and worse. The ideas in it weren't bad, but I didn't see the point in putting it in Oz, if you weren't going to stay in oz. Like I said I read some oz books in my childhood, but I remember them being very weird and magical and having a lot to do with color and direction. I think the author would have been better off writing a new, different fairy tale/story.