Lord grant me serenity.
I am trying my best to wade thru “Smilla’s Sense of Snow” and I just can’t do it.
Serenity Now!
I read one or two pages get completely lost….or fall asleep….or loose my bookmark and re-read pages I read without even realizing I’ve read them already.
I am plodding my way thru the book….it is now like a sickness...I do not know why I keep reading it but it has become a challenge. I must, must finish this book.
Have you ever read it before? Here is a summary….
She thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love. She lives in a world of numbers, science and memories--a dark, exotic stranger in a strange land. And now Smilla Jaspersen is convinced she has uncovered a shattering crime...It happened in the Copenhagen snow. A six-year-old boy, a Greenlander like Smilla, fell to his death from the top of his apartment building. While the boy's body is still warm, the police pronounce his death an accident. But Smilla knows her young neighbor didn't fall from the roof on his own. Soon she is following a path of clues as clear to her as footsteps in the snow. For her dead neighbor, and for herself, she must embark on a harrowing journey of lies, revelation and violence that will take her back to the world of ice and snow from which she comes, where an explosive secret waits beneath the ice....
I should like it… it is large part thriller/mystery but I just cant. It is so...overly-complex, introducing people and scenarios out of nowhere in the middle of another thought it makes a huge turn in another direction further complicating an already too complicated book...for no reason.
So… how about you. Is there any book that you cannot get into that others seem to just love?