And if a book feels to me like a film in the making, I am doubly averse to it, feeling strongly that literature needs to reveal the world in ways that film cannot.
I've abandoned many novels because their premises struck me as preposterous. I abhor feeling trapped in someone else's crazy imagination: Alice in Wonderland has always horrified me I find the film Brazil unbearable. I am hostile to whimsy, and beyond impatient with the fantastical.
As a reader, I am resistant to historical fiction. In the case of Erin Morgenstern's first novel, The Night Circus, I might well have been the wrong reviewer. One can admire a work of fiction without particularly enjoying it one can dislike a novel even while appreciating its value. T o a degree, literary taste is a subjective matter.
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