Thoughts on #1

So I went and saw The DaVinci Code movie last week while I was in Miramichi. Didn't much care for it. So now reading the book seems almost pointless. I thought maybe if the movie was at least done well that I could somehow force my way through the book based on the momentum of the film. Why do I want to read the book so badly? It's good to read bad writing. You can learn as much by identifying what is poorly done in writing as you can by reading fantastic writing. I am right now reading Tom Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons, which is somewhat poorly written. There are times when I want to pull my hair out, or at the very least 20 pages of unnecessary crap (I get it already! I'm not a moron! Make your point and move on) filled with changing tenses and point of view, questionable wording, and passive telling sentence structure. Yes, I have moments when my eyes glaze over and I don't think I'll make it, but so far I've persevered. I think I've had more success with this book than I've been able to have with The DaVinci Code because sometimes the sentences are fine. There are whole inoffensive pages, sometimes more than one in a row. My plan is to finish this book and then start right in on Code, while my mind is used to this type of reading. I mean transitioning from Canadian literature to Dan Brown probably was not the best way to approach this task. This easing into it might work.