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Fail, fail, fail...
Jul. 15th, 2010 08:01 pmI'm having trouble concentrating on books for more than ten or fifteen minutes at a time at the moment - I blame lack of sleep and too much time spent on the internet.
So, I actually failed to finish the last two books I started:
Jane Haynes - Who is it that can tell me who I am - non-fiction therapist book, which was both distressing and dull.
John Scalzi - The Android's Dream - very silly sci-fi about sheep, which started off okay but lost me in the techno-babble and then devolved into lots of fighting and running around (rarely effective in text)
So, in order to solve the problem, I turned to Anthony Trollope - hurrah! It would be an absolute crime to skim Trollope, and it's good enough to keep my attention. So far, so good, though I have had to intersperse reading sessions with listening to my current audiobook, so as to avoid brain overload.
Anyway, the third "fail" of the title is sadly for Penn & Teller, whose show we went to see last night. I don't know quite what I was expecting, but it wasn't what I got. I like the fact that they don't dress their tricks up as magic/psychic powers/actually dangerous - the honesty of their approach is refreshing. However, the fact that they set themselves apart from other performers in this way meant that I was somehow disappointed when they then just did a series of tricks which (while undoubtedly clever) were very predictable and not exactly spectacular. I just thought there would be more to it than that.
So, I actually failed to finish the last two books I started:
Jane Haynes - Who is it that can tell me who I am - non-fiction therapist book, which was both distressing and dull.
John Scalzi - The Android's Dream - very silly sci-fi about sheep, which started off okay but lost me in the techno-babble and then devolved into lots of fighting and running around (rarely effective in text)
So, in order to solve the problem, I turned to Anthony Trollope - hurrah! It would be an absolute crime to skim Trollope, and it's good enough to keep my attention. So far, so good, though I have had to intersperse reading sessions with listening to my current audiobook, so as to avoid brain overload.
Anyway, the third "fail" of the title is sadly for Penn & Teller, whose show we went to see last night. I don't know quite what I was expecting, but it wasn't what I got. I like the fact that they don't dress their tricks up as magic/psychic powers/actually dangerous - the honesty of their approach is refreshing. However, the fact that they set themselves apart from other performers in this way meant that I was somehow disappointed when they then just did a series of tricks which (while undoubtedly clever) were very predictable and not exactly spectacular. I just thought there would be more to it than that.
