I have to be honest - I never was that intrigued by Born to Run, but I trust Megan and Anna implicitly and so I bought into expanding my usual reading interests for our March book. It is now May, and I have yet to finish this book. I've tried. I've picked it up repeatedly and feel more frustrated each time by how incoherent the narrative feels to me. Both Meg and Anna listened to this book before / if they read the actual text, and I think that would make a difference. McDougall's writing reads like story that is being told around a campfire or after everyone's eaten at a barbeque which is fun, but feels in print, like it is one of those "you had to be there" stories. Don't get me wrong, it's a fascinating story, but it's just one where I'd rather be sitting in the spa than trying to follow which drug cartel is actually throwing bodies int he canyon.
To the people who read the book, kudos to you. Don't judge me too much for my failure to run.
I actually ended up reading the text, not listening to it. It definitely wasn't one that I finished super quickly because I needed to know how it ended. It took me the whole month to read it, but every night I picked it up, I really did find it fascinating.
ReplyDeleteI don't judge you at all. I haven't posted about it, simply because I didn't know what to say about it. I just thought it was a fun and different sort of book. And it made me curious about what other types of people are out there that live their lives completely different than we do that I just am so clueless about...
You amaze me. Way to persevere. Glad you liked it.
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