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30 Day Book Meme (2014 version) - Day 9
May. 12th, 2014 07:35 pmDay 09 – A book you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
2010 Answer: A Tale of Two Cities
This remains a hard one. I don't pick up books I don't think I'm going to like, unless I am picking them up to shred them into pieces... or if they're for school.
Unless it happens to be free on Kindle. Then I get a lot more adventurous.
So, after some deliberation, going with Perry Mason: The Case of the Howling Dog. Despite having grown up with the movies, having sought out some of the TV show, I had never read an Erle Stanley Gardner novel before. It was pretty good, better than I expected it would be, although a touch pulpy. It is one of the earlier ones. He had a couple of red herrings that worked well (they fooled me, at least). I'm not sure that I "loved" it but it was better than I expected.
And it was on sale for ninety-nine cents on Kindle. Score.
DV
2010 Answer: A Tale of Two Cities
This remains a hard one. I don't pick up books I don't think I'm going to like, unless I am picking them up to shred them into pieces... or if they're for school.
Unless it happens to be free on Kindle. Then I get a lot more adventurous.
So, after some deliberation, going with Perry Mason: The Case of the Howling Dog. Despite having grown up with the movies, having sought out some of the TV show, I had never read an Erle Stanley Gardner novel before. It was pretty good, better than I expected it would be, although a touch pulpy. It is one of the earlier ones. He had a couple of red herrings that worked well (they fooled me, at least). I'm not sure that I "loved" it but it was better than I expected.
And it was on sale for ninety-nine cents on Kindle. Score.
DV
