What do you guys do when you pick up a book and find the first few chapters utterly crap?? I went out and brought Monica Alis Brick Lane. I read the three pages of rave reviews before i started and am more disappointed by the minute. One critic said it’s a book you greedily race through and dread the coming of the last page. And i swear to god i’m pushing my way through it and wondering when i’ll flick over the last page and whilst i’m at it i’m also hoping for something to suddenly perk my interest in the book.
I paid 10 quid for it and don’t want to not read it. Plus it’s such an acclaimed novel and i just wonder why i can’t get myself to like it. Do you guys just put the book down and begin something else or do you read on just so you’ve read it and can confirm it’s crap??
I am currently reading the Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum. Everybody keeps telling me what a fantastic book it is, but I find the first few chapters tedious and so incredibly difficult to get into. I'm sticking with it though cause too many people have told me that it gets better.
I am reading Dickie Bird's 'My Autobiograpgy' and this is the most boring autobiography I have ever read. This 'once great English cricket umpire' is talking crap about some little shiitty town in Yorkshire and spending chapters after chapters on some idiots who never made it to test class cricket. Dumbass, I bought the book so I would read about you and the cricket matches you umpired. :o
Dickie Bird is a very famous umpire all over the world for his knowledge of the game and his impartial decisions. I think you are confusing him with Kitchen or Ken Palmer.
No i remember his name ( though for all the wrong reasons ). He's not too fat right?? Quite a slim, old man...was he hunched as well?? I remember his unglee going up and me cursing the living daylights out of him. Ah well you know girls and cricket :D
