Devouring in one long meal
Oct. 14th, 2008 04:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bookish_dragonTen years or more ago, I was probably trying to survive the period of uncertainty between having done my high school-exams and waiting for the results, I read my dad's collection of Kay Scarpetta-novels. Dad's always been a big thriller-fan.
I haven't touched a book by Cornwell since. I get an instinctive reaction to ward myself when I get the thought of reading one. Doing the massive read-through way back when has immunized me against ever picking one up again. After all this time, I can't remember why I got burned out on them. Most likely: I just heavily dislike Kay. I can't recall much about Cornwell's writing-style.
It's no problem for me to read Discworld straight through, other than finding the time to do so. The Martin Beck-stories, by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, have the same thing going for them (though Martin Beck tends to make me depressed. It's not so much thrillers as an accusation of the crappy Swedish social state at that time).
What are your bookseries you can read in one go, and with which ones do you need a long recovery-time in between each book?
I haven't touched a book by Cornwell since. I get an instinctive reaction to ward myself when I get the thought of reading one. Doing the massive read-through way back when has immunized me against ever picking one up again. After all this time, I can't remember why I got burned out on them. Most likely: I just heavily dislike Kay. I can't recall much about Cornwell's writing-style.
It's no problem for me to read Discworld straight through, other than finding the time to do so. The Martin Beck-stories, by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, have the same thing going for them (though Martin Beck tends to make me depressed. It's not so much thrillers as an accusation of the crappy Swedish social state at that time).
What are your bookseries you can read in one go, and with which ones do you need a long recovery-time in between each book?
