The Thorn Birds
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The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough
I loved this at first. It was really gripping, and I wanted to know what would happen to the handsome young priest, and young Meggie and so on. Even if you don't know or care anything about Australia, you get really drawn into their way of life, and the horror of droughts and so on. But when I realised that the priest was going to carry on being the most handsome man in the world, and Meggie is going to carry on being the most beautiful woman, I began to get bored.
By the time the final generation of Clearys appears - Dane, the only person in the world more beautiful than Ralph, and Justine, who is so determined to be iconoclastic that she never actually makes a word of sense, I was really bored. Both Justine and Rainer irritated me so much. Why can't they just talk normally to each other? What are they going on about?
Disappointing, because I remember it being on the television, and being aware that I was much too young to understand what was going on, but thinking it looked really wonderful. I wished then that I was older. Now I am older, and I do understand, and it just wasn't all that, after all. Maybe the television version was better.
Also: yesterday's step count: 16000. That was my double shift - I walked there and back home again, and then collapsed into bed.
Today: 12291 so far. That was the walk with the cousin and the boys to the early mediaeval church and back. Not many more tonight, I shouldn't think - I'm not going out again.