I absolutely loved "Beach Music" by Pat Conroy. It's a book I've read multiple times and will probably reread for my entire life. So I thought how could I not like another book by him right? Well this book is all about a military institute and what it takes to get through college there and though I usually find books like this interesting, the entire story tended to get lost in the over-writing and description that Conroy uses. At points it almost felt like he had used a thesaurus or something in order to find the most intelligent sounding words and the description was INCREDIBLY lengthy and boring. Towards the last quarter of the book Conroy actually starts telling the story and it got rather interesting, but for sure not enough to make the book worthwhile.
Even through all the wordiness though you do care about the characters and want them to make it through the horribleness that is "plebe" year. haha
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Wow, you are doing a lot of reading! Did you get your new Kindle?
I did! And this book only had like 10 pages to go before I finished it, on the kindle. so that's why it just popped up. haha. and it is a kindle 1 so you don't have to feel jealous.
is it bad I'm rereading twilight 1?...haha
No, I re-read that entire series too. And saw the movie like three times, maybe four. Something about it!
Oh good, I WOULD be jealous if you had the new skinny K.
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