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A review by maryann573
Supernatural: John Winchester's Journal by Alex Irvine
A book like this really should get negative stars.
On hearing that there was a book purporting to be John Winchester's Journal, my first thought was how boring is that for a reading experience? But then someone on my flist put up an excerpt from it and was talking about how fascinating it was, and I am a total sucker so I bought it and started reading it. I think it was Doris Lessing who said that as soon as you lose interest in a book you should put it down and read something else, and I totally agree with her, but I am unable to follow her sage advice. Once begun, I am unable to quit, and so I continued on with this drivel to the bitter end.
Here's the thing. Just because this book ties into a TV show does not mean that it must therefore, be awful. Really, it doesn't. When I read something this bad, I can't help but think about all those boo hooers saying ebooks will deprive writers of a living, and feel that that might be a good thing in cases like this. This book was completely phoned in by a person who wants to make a living as a writer and doesn't care what the writing is about or its quality.
This could have been a mildly decent read, if someone who was a tad interested in the show had written it, but as a book supposedly written by Papa Winchester and full of advice about how to kill various supernatural creatures, there wasn't really anything in it about how to kill various supernatural creatures. It's padded with long passages of Latin blah blah blah which serves no purpose except to increase the page count. Also, the drawings are arbitrary and hard to decipher, though some of that may be due to reading it on my kindle.
I despair of my ability to learn from my mistakes.
On hearing that there was a book purporting to be John Winchester's Journal, my first thought was how boring is that for a reading experience? But then someone on my flist put up an excerpt from it and was talking about how fascinating it was, and I am a total sucker so I bought it and started reading it. I think it was Doris Lessing who said that as soon as you lose interest in a book you should put it down and read something else, and I totally agree with her, but I am unable to follow her sage advice. Once begun, I am unable to quit, and so I continued on with this drivel to the bitter end.
Here's the thing. Just because this book ties into a TV show does not mean that it must therefore, be awful. Really, it doesn't. When I read something this bad, I can't help but think about all those boo hooers saying ebooks will deprive writers of a living, and feel that that might be a good thing in cases like this. This book was completely phoned in by a person who wants to make a living as a writer and doesn't care what the writing is about or its quality.
This could have been a mildly decent read, if someone who was a tad interested in the show had written it, but as a book supposedly written by Papa Winchester and full of advice about how to kill various supernatural creatures, there wasn't really anything in it about how to kill various supernatural creatures. It's padded with long passages of Latin blah blah blah which serves no purpose except to increase the page count. Also, the drawings are arbitrary and hard to decipher, though some of that may be due to reading it on my kindle.
I despair of my ability to learn from my mistakes.