Lately I realise I've become dissatisfied with books. I don't know what happened..but somewhere along the line I've become tired of the mundane. Romance thriller homicide FBI? Yawn. Epic quest and dark villain? Been there, read that, skipped on the T shirt.
And now I'm encountering yet another species of books - the No Endings. The past three or four books I've read (and held -- i.e. not ebooks) have had no decipherable ending. They just dropped the reader at the end. Granted, two of them are biographies of sorts (Grant Stoddard's Working Stiff and Belle de Jour - diary of a working call girl) -- the other two, were, however, just normal chick lit. That didn't really have an ending.
It's sad, really. I did enjoy the books. Not so much Stoddard's -- he writes like a guy, and does rather dumb things a guy would do; shows no visible character development; and writes in semi-linked. While Belle de Jour does much the same thing, the protagonist is at least greatly likable to me. Not to mention her life's more interesting. -wry-
Now, I know it's the nature of life to be unfinished. But sigh. What books have you guys been reading?
And now I'm encountering yet another species of books - the No Endings. The past three or four books I've read (and held -- i.e. not ebooks) have had no decipherable ending. They just dropped the reader at the end. Granted, two of them are biographies of sorts (Grant Stoddard's Working Stiff and Belle de Jour - diary of a working call girl) -- the other two, were, however, just normal chick lit. That didn't really have an ending.
It's sad, really. I did enjoy the books. Not so much Stoddard's -- he writes like a guy, and does rather dumb things a guy would do; shows no visible character development; and writes in semi-linked. While Belle de Jour does much the same thing, the protagonist is at least greatly likable to me. Not to mention her life's more interesting. -wry-
Now, I know it's the nature of life to be unfinished. But sigh. What books have you guys been reading?
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