Don's review
The Book of Air and Shadows
by Michael Gruber
I had the same problem with the novel, but I finished it. I wish I'd seen your review earlier. I will check out the Carrell book.
I usually try to give each book the first one hundred pages before deciding to quit. If it hasn't hooked me by then, it's doubtful it'll hook me any time soon.
OMG, Don, You are like my book reading soulmate. that is exactly how i read books and people make me feel strange that i feel more than compelled to do this, they think i purposely torture myself. i go a step further though if i pass the first hundred pages for whatever reason, i have to finish the book even if i hate it. i believe its more OCD than self torture, but hey to each his own. Anyway you review said everything i felt about this book. i managed to drag my way to chapter 4 before deciding to pass on it. it just fell flat and even if the guy did get killed despite the first person narration, i wouldn't even care.
I didn't mention it, but yes, once I hit the 100 page mark, I usually try to finish it, even if it gets worse!
Don's review
The Book of Air and Shadows by Michael Gruber
Don's review
rating:
recommended for: not many people
I usually try to give each book the first one hundred pages before deciding to quit. If it hasn't hooked me by then, it's doubtful it'll hook me any time soon. I gave this book the first forty pages and gave up. It's almost mind-numbingly boring. Written in first-person, so we know the narrator makes it through whatever it is that's coming up, there is no hook early on to make me want to keep reading. The narrator rambles on about things not connected to the main lost-manuscript-of-Shakespeare plot that's supposed to be the story, taking me away from that story and losing me in the process.
For a better and more interesting novel about a lost manuscript of Shakespeare, see Jennifer Lee Carrell's Interred with Their Bones.
For a better and more interesting novel about a lost manuscript of Shakespeare, see Jennifer Lee Carrell's Interred with Their Bones.
I had the same problem with the novel, but I finished it. I wish I'd seen your review earlier. I will check out the Carrell book.
I usually try to give each book the first one hundred pages before deciding to quit. If it hasn't hooked me by then, it's doubtful it'll hook me any time soon.OMG, Don, You are like my book reading soulmate. that is exactly how i read books and people make me feel strange that i feel more than compelled to do this, they think i purposely torture myself. i go a step further though if i pass the first hundred pages for whatever reason, i have to finish the book even if i hate it. i believe its more OCD than self torture, but hey to each his own. Anyway you review said everything i felt about this book. i managed to drag my way to chapter 4 before deciding to pass on it. it just fell flat and even if the guy did get killed despite the first person narration, i wouldn't even care.
I didn't mention it, but yes, once I hit the 100 page mark, I usually try to finish it, even if it gets worse!
