Should Have Thrown

“A sympathetic heroine, she finds, is almost as good as a friend of flesh and blood.” Truth.

53.12 the Crimson Petal and the White

 Waste. Of. Time.

I heard about the mini series based on this book so thought I would read it before watching, now I don’t even want to watch it, because this was a horrible book. Boring characters (He is a perfumer, seriously?  Of all the professions...), unoriginal plot (Victorian era wife who is dying of strange illness leaves a man who just needs some love), no development (When you finally get to the end – FINALLY!!! - everyone is still a jerk or dead). And the ending… He literally stopped writing. Honestly, it was a really poor excuse for an author who clearly didn’t know how to make anything meaningful out of this 900-page mess.

I knew early on I should give up on this one, but I never do that. I think I need to start. The reality is that I didn’t when I made this decision to never give up I read much less and now that I read more, and am more aware of what I like, I need to start giving up.  The one thing I took away from this book was the quote, and I love the quote, I just wish it had been true of this book.