Born to be Mild

I really, really wanted to read this book. I got it as a gift for someone and even before that I was thinking that I'd like to read this book. Me, along with a lot of other readers, know Rob Temple from his Very British Problems account so when this book got published I thought I'd like to see where his inspiration comes from. And also thought it would be a fun, but serious, realistic book that I would enjoy.

And it is, sort of. I did enjoy the writing style, I liked reading about Rob Temple by Rob Temple, I sympathised with him too. The first few chapters were great, the exact type of funny I was expecting. And then it lost me. My biggest, and perhaps only, issue with the book is that it doesn't seem to have a flow. There are random happenings (while not really happening much) one after the other, with nothing to tie them apart from the narrator.

I also wanted to mention about the various characters introduced, which are actual people, and that made me think the issue might be with me too. I think I might be a bad biographies reader. I did read biographies that were very interesting and that I liked a lot, but I might treat them more like fiction in the sense that I expect fiction levels of action and intrigue. That doesn't really happen in biographies, does it?

With this book, I really tried to read it, manged to read about half of it, but it just isn't for me, it didn't keep my interest, I got bored while trying to read it.

What I'm saying is, this book, like pretty much any book, is not for everyone. Give it a try anyway, though, you might love it.