On Page Turners

Thrillers really do have their own special appeal

that thrill that carries you into reading at 3am on a schoolday

the ravaging emotions hitting like wave after wave

Yet i find myself at times somewhat anti thriller

the constant tension, especially if i were to read right before bed, is not ideal

and sometimes not what i want

this is somewhat of a revelation to me

that the best book is not always the one which forces you to turn to the next page

if being a "page turner" is not necessarily the best book then what is though.

I think where the silence of the lambs and planet earth exist as exceptional forms of media, so too is this true for books.

Yet is there more skill in the page turner?

At times books that are not page turners feel like a comedian who goes for rounds of applause, rather than laughter. Forgetting their purpose to some extent.