Crime vs Sci-fi
Ξ March 8th, 2009 | → 1 Comments |
∇ Fun | ∇ Book, Crime, Reading, Sci-fi |
I learn a bit about my reading habits, likes and dislikes. Usually I take down a book at a time, from beginning to end without stopping or interleaving books. Although a great fan of crime novels, I reading all sorts of literary themes expect when it comes to historical romances where I really need to get motivated to start.
In spite that, a long time ago I got introduced to the works of Peter Hamilton in the form of Pandora’s Start. This sci-fi novel didn’t get my full attention right from the start but things picked near the middle. Unfortunately, when the story was getting good I took the book with me in for a working travel (to fill the void while traveling) and the book was forgotten in the nightstand in a lonely hotel room.
Realizing that the book was lost, and with no time to get it back the best way to avoid a lonely voyage home was to buy any available book right in the nearest bookstore. The selection fell upon a crime novel by Stieg Larsson called The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Unlike the previous book, this novel good my full attention and after no more that 24 hours of intensive reading scattered over 3 or 4 session the book was completed. I have to suggest this excellent novel, the first of a trilogy published postumasly, to anyone who enjoys a good novel.
It turns out that I really prefer crime to sci-fi, but I didn’t abandon Pandora’s Star. A ‘used’ issue is already on the way from amazon.
