Aftermath – Peter Robinson
I don’t give up on a book very often. Almost never, in fact. But I just can’t go on with this one. I bought it on spec – I generally don’t read crime novels, but thought I’d give it a go as it’s had pretty good reviews. I just can’t seem to enjoy it – other than the protagonist, there aren’t any other three dimensional characters; there are only suspects, witnesses, victims and policemen. Ok, so I’m a writer (or would like to be if the buggers would let me), and it’s helpful for me to read fiction that I don’t like, so I can analyse it and work out WHY I don’t like it. That doesn’t mean I have to finish the bloody thing 🙂
So, back to The Tower I go. Wizard and Glass awaits.
February 18, 2009 at 7:46 pm
You need to persevere!! I really like Peter Robinson, but you need to read more than one of them to get into the characters, He’s a bit like Ian Rankin, the books build on each other. I found the first one I read a bit dilute and gave up on it twice until it was the only book left on holiday in France, where it’s not easy to buy stuff in English :-)e The more I read the more I like them. I’ve got two on my bookcase waiting to be read 🙂
February 18, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Well, I did kinda leave off at a convenient point. It’s just a little alarming when my eReader has a backlog of about thirty books to read and I’m doggedly forcing myself to persevere with something I’m not enjoying.
Last time that happened was with The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett – I swear I was beginning to believe the malignant sod was hiding under my bed, typing more pages and shoving them in the back of the book as I slept. That was the first time in my life I thought of the term “asymptotic” outside mathematics 🙂