Review: Texting Orwell -- Ian Little
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 08 27, 2012
Courtesy of Happy Endings[...]"Daniel - a delivery driver for a firm in the London Borough of Dedbridge, has a secret. That secret is his crush on Debbie, a route planner who works at the same company. Debbie is unique, she thinks Daniel's hairdo can be saved. Daniel is a ditherer, he needs help. But today he has reached critical mass, today he has decided it is about time he cast aside his shyness and let Debbie know how utterly wonderful he thinks she is. He even has a shower before going into work. -- Toe curling, but mostly funny, a modern rom-com in a Hogarthian style.Contains adult language, and chocolate. This is love, after all."First off let me start by saying my ereader could not read the PDF, it only showed me the first three pages and the rest came up blank. That made me less inclined to read, I would now have to make time to get to my laptop and sit in front of it at my desk. But I started it and I could just not get into the story. Not to say the synopsis was bad, it was the complete opposite - the blurb actually interested me which is why I wanted to review this book.This book has two characters who share a working relationship, Debbie and Daniel. But one has a crush on the other and decided to finally get the courage to tell the person. Daniel finally decided to tell Debbie. This is a British story, a very British read, which is another reason why I probably could not get sucked in, there was way too much detail starting off - there was nothing in the first few pages to suck me into this story and make me want to continue to see how Debbie and Daniel's story end.I have questions such as, does Debbie reject or accept Daniel? How does Daniel finally face Debbie after admitting his secret? and so. But these questions were not enough of a pull to get me passed Daniel's shower and his hair. There are too many pages on these two topics. I am not interested in Daniel's way too detailed shower or the fact his co-workers want him to cut his hair. We start off with his shower and it is nothing interesting, probably beside some of the words to describe or not describe Daniel (pit-bull-like), but I kept going just to see how it would change and then we have to hear about Daniel's hair from two of the warehouse guys. This is a total of seven pages, just of Daniel taking a shower and his "friends" trying to convince to cut his hair off.For those who can see pass the major details and love a good British read, I say go for. Pick up Texting Orwell do not look at all the negative things I had to say, because according to Little's following on Goodreads it is a fantastic book, it has an average rating of a 4.5.Now normally when Happy Endings reviews a book and we do not finish it we are inclined to give it a zero, but I had to give this book at least a one rating. It is no fault of the writers that my ereader decided not to read the PDF file. I gave it one because I only read the first part and though I did not enjoy most parts of this tale I have to give the author credit when it is due. At least Little is putting his work out there. He is self published and currently working on his next book release in September, according to Goodreads.