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Book Meme, Day 18
Sep. 8th, 2011 09:53 pmDay 18 – A book that disappointed you
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson. After all the hype about it, I expected it to be just about unbearably awesome. Or at least pretty awesome. Or at least good.
I suppose my opinion of it wasn't helped by my having listened to an audio version of it read by some guy with a really annoying voice. And I couldn't even get away from it, because I listened to it during K's and my somewhat-ill-advised bus-tour of western Europe, in situations where it was dark or I had already finished my other book and I was tired of all my other music and so I was just trapped with it, it or boredom or having no auditory barrier between me and the other bus passengers and ugh. Ugh.
Anyway, had I not been in that situation, I don't know that I'd have finished it at all. It was just so boring and self-righteous and absurd! Not even the good kind of absurd. It was like a whole book of talking to your boring drug-obsessed friend who doesn't have much of anything to say about anything except drugs. Which, in retrospect, is probably about what I should have expected. After all, it mostly was my boring, drug-obsessed friends who went around calling it so very very awesome.
(I quite liked the film, though!)
( Upcoming Days )
Incidentally, I am also disappointed in my ability to complete a 30-day meme within a month. Shame on me!
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson. After all the hype about it, I expected it to be just about unbearably awesome. Or at least pretty awesome. Or at least good.
I suppose my opinion of it wasn't helped by my having listened to an audio version of it read by some guy with a really annoying voice. And I couldn't even get away from it, because I listened to it during K's and my somewhat-ill-advised bus-tour of western Europe, in situations where it was dark or I had already finished my other book and I was tired of all my other music and so I was just trapped with it, it or boredom or having no auditory barrier between me and the other bus passengers and ugh. Ugh.
Anyway, had I not been in that situation, I don't know that I'd have finished it at all. It was just so boring and self-righteous and absurd! Not even the good kind of absurd. It was like a whole book of talking to your boring drug-obsessed friend who doesn't have much of anything to say about anything except drugs. Which, in retrospect, is probably about what I should have expected. After all, it mostly was my boring, drug-obsessed friends who went around calling it so very very awesome.
(I quite liked the film, though!)
( Upcoming Days )
Incidentally, I am also disappointed in my ability to complete a 30-day meme within a month. Shame on me!
