BabyHippoFace's review
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party
by M.T. Anderson
BabyHippoFace's review
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson
BabyHippoFace's review
rating:
bookshelves:
abandoned,
young-adult
recommended for: no one. No, wait--someone bedridden for 6 months who therefore won't miss the lost time.
I admit right off the bat, this one-star rating isn't completely fair. My sister has this thing about books. If she starts it, she mustmustmust finish it, no matter how horrid she finds it to be. That, say I, is a stupid rule.
Why waste my valuable time reading something boring or awful or just plain yucky, when I could be reading something wonderful that makes me laugh or makes me think or is just downright entertaining?
I wanted to like Octavian Nothing. I listened to about an hour and a half of the audiobook before I could subject myself to it no longer. It was like listening to a boring English professor ramble on about Herman Melville or Hawthorne. Don't get me wrong, the narrator (what was his name?) had a marvelous voice--strong, deep, and very nice. It was just those incredibly dull, rambling paragraphs he was reading that lost me.
Remember being forced to read a diary of an early American colonist, or some such boring tome, in high school and/or college? Remember thi...more
Why waste my valuable time reading something boring or awful or just plain yucky, when I could be reading something wonderful that makes me laugh or makes me think or is just downright entertaining?
I wanted to like Octavian Nothing. I listened to about an hour and a half of the audiobook before I could subject myself to it no longer. It was like listening to a boring English professor ramble on about Herman Melville or Hawthorne. Don't get me wrong, the narrator (what was his name?) had a marvelous voice--strong, deep, and very nice. It was just those incredibly dull, rambling paragraphs he was reading that lost me.
Remember being forced to read a diary of an early American colonist, or some such boring tome, in high school and/or college? Remember thi...more
