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Confession Of The Day

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I stole this from another thread. 

Is there anything you feel rather ashamed of having done or not done etc?

Mine is:

I have started but not finished The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go and Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro books).

and many other 'worthy' novels. 

Anguished

I do have greater sins I might share at a later date.

Thinking

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  • As a child, I started but never actually finished reading The Lord Of The Rings by J.R.R Tolkein. Compared to The Hobbit, it was sooo long and tedious for me at that age.

    I picked up and read through the original Dune books by Frank Herbert in the 1980s, off the back of the David Lynch film of the first book. I did make it through those, but ho boy were they wordy!

    By contrast, I really enjoyed Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat books, possibly because they had less exposition and more action, plus more humour. And I also enjoyed several of my late father's collection of books by Isaac Asimov, and plan to re-read those at some point in the coming year. I even enjoyed the translation of The Monkey King, possibly because I'd watched the TV adaptation Monkey Magic as a kid and could picture the characters better as a result.

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  • As a child, I started but never actually finished reading The Lord Of The Rings by J.R.R Tolkein. Compared to The Hobbit, it was sooo long and tedious for me at that age.

    I picked up and read through the original Dune books by Frank Herbert in the 1980s, off the back of the David Lynch film of the first book. I did make it through those, but ho boy were they wordy!

    By contrast, I really enjoyed Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat books, possibly because they had less exposition and more action, plus more humour. And I also enjoyed several of my late father's collection of books by Isaac Asimov, and plan to re-read those at some point in the coming year. I even enjoyed the translation of The Monkey King, possibly because I'd watched the TV adaptation Monkey Magic as a kid and could picture the characters better as a result.

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