#DNF: The Merchants of Truth
- Author: J. Abramson
- Title: The Merchants of Truth
- Published: 2019
- Trivia: DNF
- List of Challenges
- Monthly planning
- Non-Fiction List
Finished: 07.02.2019
Genre: non-fiction
Rating: NO SCORE
Conclusion:
- I’m being brutally honest
- I wanted to love this book because I am a news-junkie.
- I thought I would enjoy knowing more about
- Buzzfeed and Vice…but the selections were bland.
- Techies are bringing entertainment not news.
- Buzz staying within boundaries but
- …Vice pushing the limits of ‘edgy’.
- Even the chapters about NYT and Washington Post
- …in part one could not
- ‘hook’ me into reading any further.
- Old school established customs/conservatism in
- boardrooms of the icons in the 1980s publishing world
- is not a great springboard into an interesting book.
- Scandals that brought down Peter Arnett and Dan Rather
- ….some millennials would say “Who?”
Last Thoughts:
- I used to force myself to finish everything I started,
- which I think is quite good discipline when you’re young,
- but once you’ve established your taste, and the penny drops
- that there are only a certain number of books
- you’ll get to read before you die
- So I’m closing this book and ….moving on.
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NancyElin.blog 
Very interesting post. I loved your comment: ” the penny drops that there are only a certain number of books you’ll get to read before you die”. I am very aware of that now. I don’t have a problem not finishing non-fiction books but with fiction I do that rarely.
Tracy, I’m becoming very selective when it comes to reading now.
Your passion (crime fiction) is not on my list, sorry.
There are too many classics I want to read…and the clock it ticking!
Thanks for you comments!
It gets easier to DNF books every year. As life gets longer it feels shorter and faster. I want to read books I can enjoy and be excited about. I really appreciate your comment that we all have a finite number of books remaining to us. Here’s hoping it’s a high number!
It is difficult to make choices at times….but crime fiction and most of the contemporary fiction wil not be on my TBR. There are so many GREAT books that have survived the test oof time and other Pulitzer Prize winners that I must read! Thanks so much for your comments.
Bravo. I’ve just made the painful decision to not finish a book that I had been anticipating highly & also came with glowing blogger reviews. But life is just too short.
Amen, to that!
Now I’m going though the books TBR on my Kindle
…and making a list of book that are not worth my reading time,
Books I bought years ago…in another time and place.