Saturday, July 12, 2014
Glad to Be Off This Train
Mr. Guralnick's goal was to write the definitive biography of Elvis Presley. Surely he was successful, if success is judged by painstaking accuracy of every bit of minutia in his subject's life. I just got bored and left the train station. As we agreed, we don't have to finish a book if it's becoming a forced effort. What I did enjoy, as I mentioned in my last post, was becoming more knowledgeable about Elvis's early years and the beginning of his career. Combining this information with videos from the Internet was very entertaining. The book, by itself, was not.
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We just have too many books to spend too much time slogging through books we aren't really enjoying! Pushing through too much minutia is a deal breaker for me too! But it's satisfying to give the books a chance rather that just letting them languish on our shelves! And then we can happily check them off our lists - haha. I feel good about donating my abandoned books to Friends of the Library -- hoping someone who can appreciate them will adopt them ;)
ReplyDeleteSo glad you found something entertaining on that train ride to Memphis!!