Monday, April 5, 2021

Fail: Tried to read The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott

 I wanted to love this book; since I read Mark Twain's Travel book, Following the Equator, I wanted to read something else about India. A novel seemed perfect.

But not this one. It is one of those "pages by the pound" novels where it seems a book worth 200 pages by its plot somehow expands to 500 pages.

Not only did it not pass the 30-page test, I could not make it past page 23.

Sad. It had potential. And I feel dejected when I cannot wrap my mind around some novel I'd like to enjoy.

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