Broom Hilda by Russell Myers for January 17, 2024

I’ve always enjoyed seeing them walk through that bizarre scenery!!!

Agatha Christie would have hated you, Broomie!!

Monty is also speed reading today:

https://www.gocomics.Com/monty/2024/01/17

Any book that only has a denouement to offer isn’t worth reading. Some writers use the language brilliantly – it is a joy to read them even with a thin plot. Some writers create taut or sprawling worlds of wonder and imagination, where plot twists or character development draw a reader in. A hack has an end with nothing worth reading before the end. Yeah, for them the last page is worth… No, even the last page isn’t worth reading in those cases.

At least read the first chapter before throwing the book against the wall and cursing the writer (I was careful not to author) with eternal fire for wasting your time.

The look on Broomie’s face in the final panel!

That turns the book into an episode of Columbo. But it also saves a lot of time, if the book is dreck.

LOL, my mother in law did that, but most often now they put a prequal to the next book, or something else the author wrote. She was caught a few times wondering what was happening in the story.

I’ve frequently read the last page of a book first. Then I have to read the rest of the book for the last page to make sense.

I like to sample a book before reading it thoroughly. I hate suspense, and I will re-read a good book many times anyway.

Back in the old days before cineplexes and the like, movie theatres used play the same feature movie (with newsreel, cartoon and maybe coming attractions) over and over and you could spend you’re whole day in there. Now my father didn’t care about the show time for the feature film and we’d go in there midway through that film. We’d stay till it ran again right up to the part where we entered, then leave. That would incense any movie director.

I love football. I record all games. After the scores are posted I watch the close ones or my local teams (unless those teams are deplorable – Jets, NY Giants_.

Why the headache, it’s just Broomie being Broomie.

So much for character development.

Speed versus comprehension. I’m on the side of comprehension. “Speed” will adjust itself as necesary….