Of Fiction and Fictional Pursuits
You know how there are some books everyone raves about and you just can't get into them? Mine is definitely Captain Corelli's Mandolin, which I tried to read twice, and then realised that life is too short to make yourself do something you really can't hack.
Another book I think I still feel a little like that about is Everything Is Illuminated - I haven't got past page five three times, even if Safran Foer is some kind of Yiddish-literary wunderkind.
Someone told me that their boss sent a copy of Captain Corelli's Mandolin to everyone in the team, with a note that said "if you don't love this book, I can't work with you." New management style, or what?
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