Books, books, books!

I like to listen to audio books when I'm running. Music just doesn't keep my mind occupied enough to forget that I'm running.

The first line of the book I'm listening too now used the line, torrential torrents. It only goes downhill from there. The characters have zero depth, the writing is awful, the story is disjointed, and yet I haven't deleted it from my MP3 player and put on another.

What is wrong with me? I'm not enjoying this, and yet I feel the need to finish listening to this awful book. The sad part is, I've read a few other recent books by this author, and didn't enjoy those either. The stories were too easily wrapped up, ridiculous plot lines, less than stellar writing. I think I understand why the library has so many different books by this author, they are so bad people just donate them to the library rather than listen to them ever again.

Now, it's time for my run. Do I have the strength to say no to bad writing? Or will I just finish it off so I don't leave the story hanging in my mind? Decisions, decisions.

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I just re-read what I wrote and it's really harsh. I'm not a book snob by any stretch of the imagination. However, as I get older I'm beginning to pay more attention to what I'm reading rather than just reading it. I am a very fast reader, and it's easy to miss some of these things when I'm absolutely flying through books. Once I started listening to audio books, I realized how much of the language I was missing out on trying to get through the story as fast as I could.

If I'm looking for something I can read at my normal pace, I can choose the same authors I've been choosing all my life. However, I'm discovering that for my audio books I need to be more discerning because otherwise I get aggravated.

I think I will delete this one and put something else on my mp3 player.