Reading leads to knowledge, and Knowledge is POWER!

Holy crap I just realized I could change the font! SCHWEEEEEEET

But that is all beside the point.

Today I'm talkin' about books. I effin love books.
Love to read books
Love to hold books
Love to own books
Love to gently caress books in candle-lit bedrooms.
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Sorry, lost my train of thought there... Oh yea, books.

Today I finally figured out my less than pride-filled pattern: 2/3
What do I mean by this? I only truly enjoy 2/3 of a literary piece. If it's a series, I'll get 2/3 of the books out of the way, then either struggle to maintain interest enough to finish, or more than likely give up and come back later. If it's a single book, I'll get 2/3 of the way through it then usually be frustrated by it until I get to the end.

I don't really know why, but it is frustrating. People must think I read a hell of a lot more books than I really do. I always have different books in hand for this very reason.
Truly, this is a severe blow to my pride.

Certain books I can make it all the way through once without ever losing the ever evasive interest. But if I go to reread... In a fashion resembling "making up lost ground", I usually can only get through like 1/4 or if I'm lucky 1/3.

For examples: Dune = great book; loved it
Dune Messiah = great book; loved it
Children of Dune = great book; loved it
God Emperor of Dune = seemed alright; could not quite finish
Heretics of Dune = remains untouched on my bookshelf
Chapterhouse: Dune = as untouched as the blinker in an asian woman's car

Another example for the latter case: Moby Dick = the favorite book of my youth
Moby Dick (revisited) = Got up to the part when Ahab makes a deal with the crew, then just couldn't pick it up.

Random insert of Awesome: "In ole Norse times, the thrones of sea-loving Danish kings were fabricated, saith tradition, of the tusks of the narwhal. How could one look at Ahab then, seated on that tripod of bones, without bethinking him of the royalty it symbolised? For a Khan of the plank, and a king of the sea, and a great lord of the Leviathans was Ahab." That is a quote from Moby Dick that I find pretty effing sweet and thought the world should share my opinion or be put to death...that is all
We now return to your regularly scheduled blog...

Perhaps there is a way to restore the passion!
Perhaps if I took two great pieces of literature and ruined them both in an attempt to fuse them... I give you: MOBY DUNE!

Ahhhh, YES. That's the ticket!
I would read this!
ALL OF THIS!
It is so perfectly bad, that it must be utterly brilliant.

And by the way... Hollywood, again You Are Welcome.