What’s the most desperate thing you’ve read because it was the only available reading material?If it was longer than a cereal box or an advertisement, did it turn out to be worth your while?
Yes, it was. I was on vacation in Vermont, and there was almost nothing to read in the cabin. (It was bad enough being in the cabin, for reasons I rather would forget.) I'd brought along quite a few books, and I had read them all, so I started to examine the shelves, hoping I'd missed something readable amongst the fishing, hunting, and small-engine-repair manuals -- and I had : Island by Aldous Huxley. It was, as you can imagine, worth reading.
(It's been 27 years since I read it, and I have included it on my Dystopian Challenge for this summer, because it will be, as you can imagine, worth re-visiting -- especially since I won't be reading it while suffering through a my own, isolated dystopia.)
melanie
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Hi Melanie, thanks for visiting me! I hope you will enjoy your Dystopian Challenge! :D
Happy BTT...
I would love to go away to a cabin and read and read... Sorry yours was a bad experience.
Ha ha, imagine being bored enough to read a small engine repair manual. Glad you found the Huxley instead!
I love when that happens when you pick up a book expecting to hate it and end up really liking it, those are great surprises, the best kind for a reader!
Happy BTT!
-Rowena
I agree with Rowena, and glad to hear you'll be re-reading for your Dystopian Challenge.
Happy BTT!
THAT was your most desperate experience? I envy you.
There's a dsytopian challenge? Ah, April. I completely missed it.
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