Book-a-book of the Month Club discussion

After the first few pages or chapters, what are your thoughts?

I am liking it very much so far. it annoys me that I can't just sit and read it and keep getting interrupted bu things loke uni and work :p haha I hope I finish it in time!

:) Even if it isn't done before the end of the month, we can still talk about it as long as you want! My reading has been delayed by the fact that my wife and I just had a baby on Monday!

I can say that while I liked it from the beginning, it did take me awhile to really get into it.

See I didn't find that,my partner asked if his intros were as hard to get into as his father's.. I told him that for me it felt as if we got right into the story, I was hooked pretty quick!

Congratulations on the baby! :) Very exciting

I think I'm up to the part where it's starting to take off. In the opening chapter the nurse dropped a hermetically sealed plasticized PVC bag on the floor and it popped over her feet. I almost stopped reading right there. That's the kind of thing that annoys me greatly.

So far I'm glad that I did not. That instance was the bar I set for myself in suspended disbelief. Hahah, surprisingly everything else has been below that bar.

Joe - I am curious about why the part you mentioned annoys you? I would probably not have given that part a second thought one way or another.

Oh, uh. It may be petty. I guess that's why they're called pet peeves. A blood bag is nearly impossible to pop without using a sharp edge or a great deal of pressure. I saw someone at a hospital once step right on a blood bag and jump off of it, the bag was totally unharmed. One of the other nurses then commented, "Don't worry about it honey. You could jump on that thing and it ain't gonna pop." The second nurse was heavy set. Also, that's just what I'd expect from a bag filled with bio-hazardous material.

So the idea that the nurse administering the blood bad to Charles Manx in the opening chapter could drop it and have it explode all over her feet felt a little childish and just for show. My immediate judgement was to call bullshit on the whole thing.

Hmmm - I didn't think about that. I suppose that when I read books that have subjects that I know a lot about I can get a little peeved when things are not as the should be. But, for the sake of enjoying a story, unless they are really bad or really stupid, I try to let them slide.

Haha, yeah. When shows talk computer speak and they have no idea what they're talking about I will have to stand up and walk around out of embarrassment. It was a similar thing here.