Day 6: A book that you couldn't read more than once.
This is a hard one. Books I read for school are out, since I have to read them at least twice in order to be able to analyse them properly. There are a few books that have made me cry and so terribly unhappy, you would think I wouldn't want to read them again at any price, but it's the contrary, really. I wouldn't pick up books that I found boring and predictable a second time, but with those, I only read the first few chapters anyway. There is one book I have read in its entirety that I'm not likely to pick up again though, at least not anytime soon, and that book is Wicked by Gregory Maguire.
It's not because I didn't like the book or anything. It's just because it was a lot to stomach. I also read it during NaNoWriMo which was probably not the most intelligent thing to do, since that made November an exhausting month not only writing-wise, but also reading-wise. It took me a hell of a lot of time to finish Wicked, to the point that it kind of became a mountain to climb, where the first thing you think afterwards is, "phew, I did it", and not, "wow, that was great". I did enjoy it though, and I'm soon going to read the sequel. I'm really curious whether it will be the same with Son of Witch, because then it would not be exclusively my own fault, but also Gregory Maguire's. Heh. :)
It's not because I didn't like the book or anything. It's just because it was a lot to stomach. I also read it during NaNoWriMo which was probably not the most intelligent thing to do, since that made November an exhausting month not only writing-wise, but also reading-wise. It took me a hell of a lot of time to finish Wicked, to the point that it kind of became a mountain to climb, where the first thing you think afterwards is, "phew, I did it", and not, "wow, that was great". I did enjoy it though, and I'm soon going to read the sequel. I'm really curious whether it will be the same with Son of Witch, because then it would not be exclusively my own fault, but also Gregory Maguire's. Heh. :)