Well, me. Some of us are just readers. We develop other ways of coping
with our frustrations.
But then again, you may remember my take on the Reacher books as
utterly unrealistic. I read a chapter or two of one book and went on for
about that many pages about how he couldn't possibly afford all those
steaks on the pay he reported, etc. I can be quite literal.
Nevertheless, /Bangkok 8 /did make me suspend my disbelief. I would
have put it aside after the first chapter as too ethereal and mystical
and gone on to the next book on the pile, but I was reading on the
elliptical trainer and didn't want to stop "running." Somehow Burdett
makes sudden immersion into a very different culture's mind-set easy and
interesting. In retrospect, the plot wasn't all that credible either,
but I want to read Bangkok 9, or whatever the next book is named.
Joy
Gerald So asked:
> Who hasn't, at one time or another, used their fiction to take out frustration?
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