What kind of life do you have that, of all books, THIS one changed it?

[scarlett__mage]

So I just finished reading Tuesdays with Morrie. I bought it two or three years ago, used from the CSUF Titan Shop, but only recently plucked its dusty mass off my bookshelf. An easy read. The only reason I finished it was because I had gone through most of it so quickly I figured at this rate I might as well see it to the end. Had I known that it

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[electro_robot]

oh praise jesus! good to see i'm not the only one that thought this book was a load of rubbish.

[scarlett__mage]

I know right!? When I first started forming my opinion about it, I felt kinda bad 'cause it's like hey, it's about a guy dying from Lou Gehrig's disease, but eventually I arrived at a just plain wtf. I'm pretty ticked at how unfulfilled it left me.

[electro_robot]

yea, pretty unsatisfactory. it's not the fact that he's dying from a disease. the fact of the matter is the book was poorly written. plain and simple. badly written books vs. well written books. you can't win 'em all...

you might like "Brideshead Revisited" btw. And I know that it's a children's series, but The Golden Compass is amazing. You'd really love it.

[scarlett__mage]

yeahhh... 192 pages. With a lot of space between the sentences and super short chapters. A lot of fluff. I'm sure America would've bought it twice over w/ illustrations 'cause then it's like "Ooooh, look at all the pictures! So this is what the course of Lou Gehrig's disease looks like!"

[anakalia_grey]

thank you, nail on the figurative forehead, etc.!

I didn't read it myself, but you summed up perfectly why I wouldn't ever have bothered to pick it up. Front-of-the-bookstore, visually-appealing, neatly-packaged fluff for the on-the-go American with a desire for Intellect™!

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