November 12, 2009
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Currently Reading
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I am reading a book. Feast your eyes on that statement, because you won’t see it too often. The book I’m currently reading is called Boneman’s Daughters, and it’s by Ted Dekker. I can’t really say I’m a HUGE fan of Dekker, but most if not all of the few books I’ve read have been his. Saint was probably one of the best books I’ve ever read (which can’t really be said for the other two books in that series), and the others I’ve read, Showdown, Sinner, Skin, House (a collaberation novel with Frank Peretti), and Three, have kept my attention enough to carry me through reading them in their entirities. Anyway, I’m into chapter eight of this book, and holy cow is it good. I’ve got it for 21 days, and there are 37 chapters, so I’m going to read two chapters a day. Two chapters a day is almost too much to digest, though (for me). The picture Dekker paints, and the depth of intimacy I already have with all the characters makes going a full two chapters in a day a feat of it’s own. One of the reviews (on the back) says that the book “demands to be read in one sitting” and as intense and suspensful as it is, I can totally understand somebody saying that, but….wow. I can’t even think straight. I feel like I’ve been a silent third party charactar in the book, watching everything that has happened so far. The book goes into the kind of detail that every person notices in real life, without going so far into detail that the reader painfully shouts “Get on with it!!!” It’s almost as if the author knows exactly what I want to know about what’s happening around the characters. Weird. Either it’s really late, and my brain doesn’t want to think right, or I’m still trying to take in everything the book has shown me so far. Whatever the case may be, this post has been a sentence-by-sentence ramble. Read the book. It’s good. Sorry, I’ll go to bed now.
Comments (3)
I love to read myself to sleep at night
I’ve actually never read any of Dekker’s books, but some of the kids in the youth group I work with have been reading them nonstop. I know they’ve really enjoyed the books in the series that have colors as titles. (Red, Black, White) He seems to have a great command of words. One of the kids does exactly what it says on the back of your book. He sits down and reads the whole book in a matter of hours in one sitting. I only wish I had that kind of time on my hands. I remember when I did, back when I was a kid. I would read a Tom Clancy book in a week when I was 11. I look back on that now and think of how much reading I must have done, because his books are like 1,200 pages long. Now I’m happy if I get a chapter of a book in before I have to jump into something else that takes up my time.
That sounds like a good book. Enjoy!
@respawn87 - I hear ya. I haven’t read Dekker’s color books (I can’t remember what the series is called) but supposedly they’re his best works. A friend of mine read them, and said none of his other books compare. I don’t know what’s keeping me from reading them, but I just haven’t yet found the interest. I picked up this one from the library because it was his newest book, and it sounded interesting.