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A Monster's Notes by Laurie Sheck

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Dec 28, 10

bookshelves: books-read-in-2010
Read from December 22 to 28, 2010

Well - that was a complete waste of time and effort. The best part of this book was the cover - which oh so seduced me with it's suggestion of 'the eye of the soul' and 'an unfinished person' and 'a piece of the whole'...and on and on. I couldn't wait to read this book. What a complete disappointment. By the time I realized that it wasn't going to get any better, I'd already invested too much reading to just quit it. Lordy - the pain to finish it. Nearly did me in.

So what was this book about? Who cares! It was snippets of letters and disjointed thoughts - all whiny and philosophical about nothing and everything and ....did I mention fragments of ..and why did I bother? and who will care? The writing was thankfully done in the format of letters and disjointed thoughts so the pages weren't full. So I guess that was the second best thing about the book.

The third best thing was finally closing the cover. Don't ask me to read another book by Laurie Sheck. I may cry.

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Reading Progress

12/23/2010 page 72
14.0% "An extremely slow & disjointed start to this one! It can only get better - right?!"
12/27/2010 page 225
42.0% "Still waiting for this book to kick in .... not doing anything for me yet."
12/28/2010 page 330
62.0% "OK - it's never going to kick in....and now I've invested too much of the book to just drop it. So much pain to finish!!!!"
12/28/2010 page 488
92.0% "So close to the end! What a painful book experience this has been..."

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