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Apr. 22nd, 2007 08:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckNext weekend will be the Friends of the Library bag sale. I hope to attend, but I'm a little afraid of what I'll bring home if I do. The flat per bag rate always encourages me to pick up things that have only a slim chance of getting read and being worth reading. Still, I've gotten some gems that way in the past, and there's a lot of fun in the search. The sale marks the end of the book sale until fall.
Yesterday at the Friends of the Library book sale I bought a likely-to-be-dreadful little novel based entirely on the title. I knew from the blurb and the cover that it would be terrible, but I wanted to be able to say that I owned (or at least had owned at one time) a book titled The Mastering of Mary Sue. Perhaps I read too much fannish meta...
At any rate, every bit of the book that I've looked at (a few pages here and there and the end) is as terrible as I expected. Mary Sue is a rich nymphomaniac. The story is a first person narrative by her husband who wants to make her his sex slave, declare her incurably insane and gain control of her fortune. He comes to a bad end.
I had to buy it. I just had to.
Yesterday at the Friends of the Library book sale I bought a likely-to-be-dreadful little novel based entirely on the title. I knew from the blurb and the cover that it would be terrible, but I wanted to be able to say that I owned (or at least had owned at one time) a book titled The Mastering of Mary Sue. Perhaps I read too much fannish meta...
At any rate, every bit of the book that I've looked at (a few pages here and there and the end) is as terrible as I expected. Mary Sue is a rich nymphomaniac. The story is a first person narrative by her husband who wants to make her his sex slave, declare her incurably insane and gain control of her fortune. He comes to a bad end.
I had to buy it. I just had to.
