Ok, confession time. I hate reading novels.
Well, maybe not all of them, but I've been stung by enough bad novels to lay off them for a while. I've been recommended books by friends that I've started reading but often I can't get past the half way point. I get bored of them. Case in point; I was given 'The Hobbit' to read once, a 'classic'. I couldn't finish it, having to make up stupid tunes for their inane songs they burst out singing all. the. time. I'm sorry, I wasn't told I would be doing homework whist reading this book. A friend of mine lent me the 'Twilight' series, ugh - what is that all about? I got a chapter in before I realised I'd wasted 5 minutes of my life I would rather have spent shelling peas or watching paint dry or something else more thrilling. It gets me so angry to think I've wasted perfectly good sitting-doing-nothing time by reading crap and it boils down to this; there are far more fascinating stories out there to be told that you don't need to go making shit up.
I love reading, when I read I have several books on the go at once. (I think I get bored easily). You may think a lack of story books would limit what I read, but it really doesn't. There are books for learning practical skills, autobiographies, travel books, poetry books, philosophy books, lifestyle books. Basically, every kind of book except made-up.
In my heart of hearts I know I'm restricting myself by cutting out novels and I will go back at some point, just avoid all the fantastical crap, but in my defense, the twighlight thing was before the films came out and I had no idea what they were about (to be honest at one chapter in it hadn't started to get that warewolfy or vampirey yet, it was just shit). Just bad fucking writing - and if you have read this far you can see I know something about bad writing (!)
So I write this post and send it out to the universe with one wish; please, book publishers - have a heart, no more terrible books, I am defeated!
