So Many Books

My autistic ass: Well, I fuckin loved that book and I found it super relatable...

(Same girl who said this is my anti-everything ex-friend)

I finished reading it on the train yesterday, and whilst I recognise there are some factual errors (inability to lie, for example) I enjoyed it.

One Goodreads review said it was terrible because the author needed to 'make a choice about the fucking character' being high or low functioning because he seemed to be a mix... and it made me laugh and cry in equal measure because that's precisely why functioning labels are bogus.

I liked the idea of the powers of two to relax, I tried it whilst on the train and later before sleeping.

But, yeah. I... was expecting a bad book, because of everything I'd heard, but actually it was comforting (the format, rather than the bad things going on).

No I'd never had it. But I had seen Narnia and thought that anything that Edmund was willing to betray his family for had to be delightful.

Anyway I'm now realizing that this may have been a metaphor for how radical groups entice young boys into joining, give them something mediocre that they don't have access to and they might just betray there friends and neighbors for you.

Not the point of my post.

There surely must be a veritable army of people who were compelled to try/enjoy Turkish Delight because of that series… and who found it was bloody awful.

I keep thinking I should try it again but... I haven't, yet.

Twilight came first... it must have been followed by TVD because when I read ths Vampire Academy I re-read it on a loop for at least a year (all because the first chapter was added at the end of Last Sacrifice!). Then came Harry Potter, after VA.