i mean, a guy like george pelley can know or ian rankin or p.v. james.lists even though there are mysteries contained in them. i read a lot of mystery novels because when i'm revising, i find that if i read literary fiction, i pick up other people's ticks. so i kind up reading mysteries then. and for years i had to finish a book, no matter how much i thought this is very unsatisfying, i'm not resonating to this book, this book isn't working for me, i had to finish it. and i think it was probably about ten years ago, about the same time when i suddenly stopped caring what anyone thought about me, around age 50, that i was in conversation with my closest friend who said i don't understand why you're fetishing it. you clearly don't like it, you don't care what happens, and i went back and forth with her on that, and eventually i decided that it was, in fact, acceptable for me sometimes to not finish a book. but i still find it really hard to do that. >> host: big, thick, wonderful books that could take you a whole summer to read but aren't beach books, this