
So Here's the Story
Goal will begin in 2019
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2017
Abandoned Books
![]() ItBy: Stephen King | ![]() Another Little Piece of my HeartBy: Richard Goldstein |
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Why I Abandoned: Stephen King's "It"
I started this book out of interest in the author and having just seen the remade movie. It's a whopping 1,138 pages, so it's already a large book. However, I learned quickly that a large majority of it is description. I tried to press on, and King definitely does have a talent for descriptive writing, so I don't want to take away from that. Despite trying my hardest to get through the book, I realized I wasn't going to be able to get through when King spent three pages simply describing the contents of a man's medicine cabinet. King seemingly will spend a chapter describing a bush that has no relevance to the actual story. So I praise him on his descriptive writing, but unfortunately, this was not the book for me.
Why I Abandoned: Richard Goldstein's "Another Little Piece of my Heart"
This book did not lack in the content department. I actually found that I enjoyed learning about the different times Richard Goldstein lived through, how he became a writer, and his experiences with some of the most well known musicians for even today, such as Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison of The Doors. Where this book lacked was its writing style and massive walls of text. The book itself is fairly thin, but the font is very small making it hard to read a lot in a short amount of time. I would've also liked to see a couple of photos of Richard Goldstein with the people he interviewed, just to break up the huge walls of words. There were very few breaks in the writing, and I found myself spacing off quite frequently. For these reasons I chose to abandon this book and possibly revisit it later.