Random Thoughts From Marybeth

Not-So-Timeless Literature

I stopped reading a book midway through the other day. It wasn't that the story wasn't interesting or that it was poorly written. In fact, it was by an author whose books I have enjoyed before and this one wasn't atypically bad or boring.

I stopped reading when I came to the second occasion in the book where the characters began making negative comments about the current presidential administration. It was totally irrelevant to the story and the dialog felt as though it had been shoehorned in just to make a point.

A couple of months after the paperback version comes out these bits of dialog are just going to seem dated and weird.