A few weeks ago I went to lunch with an old friend from BBW in my favorite town.
There was no parking right out front so I had to park about a block down and walk back. As I walked past the book store (The Book Store on the Corner), I saw Her Fearful Symmetry. I had seen it in the sidebar on facebook, and considered downloading the audiobook, but it was too expensive. I went in and grabbed it (for only $3) and I also found the Diary of Ellen Rimbauer.
Since it was smaller, I read it first. Before this book, I had no previous ideas or opinions of this book. As I was reading it, I was thinking it was the account of an actual person and these were the things she thought were happening in her world.
I get 3/4 of the way through, and started googling her and her husband, to no avail. The search results were only coming up the book itself. That was when I stumbled across a forum from 2003 when the book was published. Apparently it is a fiction book about a fiction person. If you have eyes, you could see on the back near the barcode where it says fiction.
Duh...
Overall, it was an OK story, but I completely lost interest when I found out it wasn't real.
1 comments:
have you ever read The Princess Bride? it's a really, really great book. by the end of it, the author totally had me fooled. i actually believed that he was re-writing an old foreign folk tale, and that there was going to be a second book....
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