Hey BookTube, I just have another little kind of thought-provoking video here that is provoking my thoughts. Basically, I want to know if you guys have ever read a book that the whole time you were reading it, it was kind of like so-so and you were like it wasn't like bad enough to DNF but it wasn't so good that you were like super excited to be reading it and then you're reading it, you're reading it, you're reading it and then you're like almost done with it and you're like, oh I'm almost done with this, I could just you know, yeah I could finish this and yeah I'll write, okay and then you're reading it, you're reading it and then you get to the last page and you read it and it's not that it's life-changing but it just like the last page just like kind of knocks you out like it wasn't exactly what you were expecting, it wasn't earth shattering but just the last page you read it and you were like oh and you don't know how you feel about the book because getting there was kind of a slog or just kind of the best example I have for this and like it speaks to me but I don't know if it would speak to everybody but like Bikowski said when he read George Orwell's down and out in London or whatever he's like yeah it was good but I could play piano better than that you know like so when like especially reading a book about like tough kids or like these like dudes that are like like I don't even know how I'm trying to explain this but like the book in question here was the blonde on the street corner by David Goodes and the whole book was it wasn't necessarily meandering it just like things were happening and it was fine none of the characters were horribly likable everyone was just kind of there and then at the end you were like oh oh I kind of it's almost like when you watch like an Eli Roth movie and you go oh wow the whole reason this whole movie exists was because he had an idea for that gross out thing and he's like I'm gonna write a movie around this whole idea of this guy getting as high pulled out or something like that um I almost feel like David Goodes started with this idea and again this isn't earth shattering like nothing that happened at the end of this book would change the price of T in China you know what I'm saying like there was nothing that made the end of this book speak loud but it was like I guess the first time in the book that I'm like oh I understand these two people but like the the one thing about this book that I thought was kind of clever was the main character Ralph I think his name was he's like a 30 year old that still lives at home um and it's hard out there to get work and I think they're in Philadelphia it's just everything's kind of slum and when ever the mom or the sister or anyone starts chewing them out about something and lecturing him on something he's like reading the newspaper and so it'll be like the mom saying you need to go out and get a job and then he'll go oh Tucker knocked this guy out in the fifth round last night that's pretty good I wonder if he'd be able to keep up with Mahoney oh wow you need to put food on the table you stupid piece of crap oh wow I wonder how much he exercises I wonder if I'm in that kind of shape hmm that's some interesting stats and so that's like kind of a fun and it's like we're not talking just like a couple of lines like we're talking like a couple pages or so of like just this weird meandering which I already said it wasn't meandering I don't know what I'm trying to say here I just know that I finished the book two days ago and I'm still thinking about the end of the book but I'm also thinking about how the book itself was never great and there were a couple you guys know the check-offs gun theory like you don't put a rifle above the fireplace and draw attention to it unless you're going to use it later on in the story right there's probably like six different check-offs guns and and only one of them goes off and it's just like kind of weird it's it's almost the same feeling is I had when I read 1933 was a bad year like that one there was some hope at the end it was scary but there was hope blown on the street corner there's like no hope but you have a hopeful feeling even though you know there's no hope if that makes any sense so I don't know I don't know what I'm trying to say other than do you guys have books you know another author who I felt this way with a lot was Miracami like I would read a Miracami book and feel like not all the time but some of his books I've read like you're just like oh this isn't bad I'm getting through it this isn't this is happening and then you get to the end you're like dude like that might be like a higher level because I came away liking those books a lot more than I came away liking this book but just are there any books out there that you felt that way with that you just kept reading it you weren't sure why you weren't sure where it was going and then the lap not the last page necessarily but like the end of the book like the last few pages it just kind of hit you a little bit and you're like oh huh and then because as soon as I finished reading it I didn't think I liked it but like I've read I don't know I've read at least one other book and a ton of short stories and stuff since I read that and I can't stop thinking about it so um huh yeah so what been down below um give me the books that did that to you that made you feel that way and in the links below will also be the discord link to come to the paperback junkie discord server where we talk books and all sorts of nerdy crap so um anyway folks that is that um and I will see you later