5.11.08

Manual of Life - Alternative Definitions

Courage
n., Choosing not to finish reading the rest of a book-series that actually started off interestingly but faded somewhere down the line* - despite knowing that all the time you have already spent on following the series is effectively wasted, since you won't know how it all ended.

Related:
Sensibility - Giving up on a book that you started only because it seemed interesting, but wasn't.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

No time spent on following a book-series is wasted (in suitably sanctimonious tone)... even if you're talking of that dreadful series by that boy--watsisname? the dragon books?

??! said...

No idea. But I can offer names of some series to avoid.