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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
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Bah. Many people won't find this review helpful. I do care about that, but not enough to change my review, because I feel it encompasses my feelings for this book quite fully. Here it is:
I had to choose between continuing to read ECGTB or staring at the back of the airplane seat in front of me.
I chose the back of the seat.
Repeatedly.
I'd read a section, and think to myself "This is shit!" and put it down to stare at the seat in front of me. Then I would think to myself "Come on. You're on a plane, and you have a book to read--a book by a renowned author. Just read the damn thing!"
But I couldn't!
So I would stare at the seatback for awhile, then pick up the book again and try to read it. It didn't work. So I would put the book down again and stare.
Rinse and repeat. Ugh!
I don't hate this book, but I found it to be self-indulgent drivel. I couldn't finish it, and I can't remember the last book I could say that about.
I had to choose between continuing to read ECGTB or staring at the back of the airplane seat in front of me.
I chose the back of the seat.
Repeatedly.
I'd read a section, and think to myself "This is shit!" and put it down to stare at the seat in front of me. Then I would think to myself "Come on. You're on a plane, and you have a book to read--a book by a renowned author. Just read the damn thing!"
But I couldn't!
So I would stare at the seatback for awhile, then pick up the book again and try to read it. It didn't work. So I would put the book down again and stare.
Rinse and repeat. Ugh!
I don't hate this book, but I found it to be self-indulgent drivel. I couldn't finish it, and I can't remember the last book I could say that about.
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June 1, 2007
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July 14, 2007
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the only reason why im finishing this novel is because I hate putting down a book once i've started it...i liked your bit about the airplane seat...that juuust happened to me over this past holiday..
I had a similar experience. Once I got home I realized I did not want to read this book anymore and only was reading it because I was on a plane.
I support not reading a book don't enjoy or that just wears you out. Search For Lost Time wore me out half way thru. Albertine died and I said, "WTF, I could read a book that I enjoy and benefit from. SFLT was wonderful but I could not finish and is not the thread of this discussion.I read ECGTB say back when it first came out. I had a beard, a curvy long haired woman and wore cowboy boots when not at work. Now I watch birds, hike and lost the woman in the passing of time. I enjoyed the book when I was who I was but now I am not. The Seventies are gone and perhaps this book should be gone with them.
I agree, it is hateful and dangerous.
Hateful/dangerous. I don't think so. Just a book out of it's time. Sort of like, Easy Rider, the movie. I enjoyed it so much in the day but it does not hold up well so many years later.
Ha, ha. Loved the part about how you'd prefer to stare at the seat in front of you. If I didn't have to read this for a book club, I would have stopped, too.
I just got to page 100 and have never not finished a book.. but I truly cannot continue to read this. So I'm glad I'm not the only one.
I got through this one when it first came out, but decided life was too short to ever go through such an experience again. The last book that I read & felt like this about was We Need to Talk About Kevin which put me in such a bad mood, my son & husband beseeched me to stop reading it. I powered through for a book group, but life is too short to read books that make us miserable. Just reading some passages from Robbins here has made me remember why I won’t be reading him again in this lifetime. I think I was in a very different space when I read ECGTB in my youth, this is not an author who ages well for me.
I’ve owned this book for 15 years and I finally finished it because I can’t bare to throw away a book I haven’t read. Awful
I chose to keep staring at sand for 10 hours with no sound rather than listening to this, so this review made me feel more normal.
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