24-Hour Challenge: Hour 22
Oct
'07
Currently Reading: Lasher by Anne Rice
ยท Pages Read: 72
That seems pretty exciting, doesn’t it? Hour 22, only two more hours left. Except now I have to put the pieces of my Internet life back together, because I seem to have lost quite a lot of it. Things continue to be randomly useless to me - my browser deletes all my bookmarks, my precious links, my PC won’t turn on without immediately shutting down, my website rarely works and I fear I’ll soon lose all my writing and the countless hours spent databasing my books. What’s the point, really, I start to wonder.
I let myself sleep, setting an alarm for 8:40 to get in at least 30 minutes. It was futile to continue as I was, eyes closed with the book open, waking only when I felt my nose sink into the pages. Sort of puts a new angle on the “nose in a book” way of phrasing one’s interest in reading.
I didn’t really read 72 pages. The downfall of Anne Rice, as I’ve mentioned, is that it’s entirely too wordy. The beginning wordy is fine - I call it the excitment of being drawn into the narrative, subtly pulling you into this world of fantasy. The ending wordy is not so great, and usually disinterests me completely. I skimmed the entirety of Lasher’s story. I saw it. My eyes went over the words and picked up themes and ideas and general concepts, but I wasn’t deep into it, grasping every word as if it were the last I’d ever read. I’m fine with that, though it seems to be how all Anne Rice books end for me.
There are 20 pages left in this novel. I will read them, but then I think I will sleep. It won’t make a full 24 hours, but I’m frustrated and upset. It’ll make 23 hours, 21 of which was actually spent reading, truly, which is an excellent effort and accomplishment.
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