Hooked
by Tommy
I wouldn’t be what you’d call an avid reader. I’d like to be though. I would read about 2 book a month – which isn’t fantastic. Not when you put me against some of the people who did the MS Readathon certainly.
What happens when I do read a book is that I’ll start it, and then get slowly hooked, but ever so gradually so that I don’t really notice. I’ll see it lying on my beside table and pick it up, saying I’ll only read for a while before getting back to working.. and then realize an hour later that 60 minutes has passed.
My current read is The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown. I read Angels and Demons a while back and loved it, but it only occurred to me to read his other books recently. The version we have at home is a whopping great ‘Illustrated Version’, which is quite entertaining, but annoyingly un-portable.
When I was going to Boston I decided to buy a book at the airport but didn’t want to buy something new because I mightn’t like it. I convinced myself that 7.99€ is not an abomination of a price to buy the book a second time – a more travel-sized edition, too.
I’m very much enjoying this book. I love thrillers. I love reading a book and dying to know what comes next. I’m like an adrenaline junkie, only with thriller books. Dan Brown does this perfectly.. but almost to the point where I’m so curious about what happens next that it’s a case of I’m this close to throwing the book across the room because he’s kept me in suspense for so long, so he finally says “fine, he opened the book and the writing said this:, finally finishing the point that he began 4 chapters ago with “and Robert opened the book and gasped at what he saw…..
It can get annoying at times, but I guess you could say it’s rewarding.
What did you think of it? And what other thrillers would you recommend?