Boredom Abounds

[ultra_chrome]

So here I am at work. Not allowed a computer so I'm using my phone. Basically I spend 13 hours in my car and only go for a short walk every hour and then a short drive immediately after. Which leaves about 45 minutes of every hour unaccounted for. But hey, I'm getting paid for it

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[heartofdavid]

Damn my pathological need to finish every book or series I start.
Ah, I had that trait as well, but managed to lose it while I was incapacitated. Even if a book is obviously cack, I'll still give it more than a fair chance, say 50+ pages, before I stop the misery. Mercifully, those books are rare; they have to be absolute shitski for me to vanquish them. As long as there is some flicker of goodness in a book, no matter how remote, I'll work my way through it.

Has the series you're reading gone down hill?

[ultra_chrome]

Not so much gone downhill as gone on far too long. This will be the 13th book. It wasn't the best written stuff in the world but it was interesting for a long while. Then it was all neatly wrapped up with a vastly improbable bow, so I thought I was getting out alive....

I've actually got a couple of other books on the go as well. But they're biographies and I can only take so much of those at a time. So I'll flit between them all until they're all finished.

So did you ever torture yourself with the Twilight twaddle

[heartofdavid]

So did you ever torture yourself with the Twilight twaddle
Nah, the concept never interested me when I first heard about it. High school kids? Oh please, I have slightly above zero and slightly below 1 interest in the dealings of high school kids. And vampires...has to be something really unique about it for me to want to read about vampires.

Though I will say, I am still a comic book and manga fiend, and am more lenient about subject matter with them than in regular 'books'.

[ultra_chrome]

See you're smart. I let myself be bullied into reading it by The Frog. I really dig the vampire thing normally but proper ones that can be stabbed through the heart and can't be out in the daytime. So the whole thing annoyed me even without the fanfic writing style. And not the good kind. Frog assures me there are much better writers in the fandom.

I've tried the whole comic book/manga thing but I just can't get engrossed. I can admire the skill but don't appreciate the art as I should. I'm the same with animated films. There's a faulty switch in my brain that tells me if it isn't a realistic image, it should be all about talking animals with no pants. Annoying really.

Is there anything you think is a must read that might fix that?