Friday, August 31, 2007

Books.

Have you ever been reading a book that just kind of pisses you off? I'm doing that right now. The book is called Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman. It's super-hero fiction, and is told from two points of view: the first is an experienced villian named Doctor Impossible, the second is a rookie hero named Fatale. What pisses me off is I'm 99 pages in and I can't tell if I like it or not. Usually with books, I'm one extreme or the other. I either LOVE IT and devour it in a few days (if not hours) or I HATE IT and only make it a chapter or two before throwing it across the room and internally mocking it for... well, forever. With this book, I have no strong reaction. I'm still interested and keep knocking out a chapter or two every other night, but I'm not obsessed over it. I'm just r e a d i n g it, which is a new experience for me. Bizarre.

I'll let you know what I think when it's finished, I guess. But don't hold your breath.

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