'Lost' vs Patrick O'Brien

[watervole]

Shall I record another episode of 'Lost', with its increasingly predictable storylines, morally-uplifting plots, impossibly pretty people and total lack of understanding of the real problems of living on a desert island, or shall I go and read another chapter of 'Master and Commander' by a writer who truely understands how to show and not tell, who has a fantastic grasp of period detail and who writes novels where I can't predict where the next turn of the page will take me. And with complex, detailed characters who don't feel contrived.

Gosh, that's an easy decision, isn't it? It'll leave more space on Tivo's hard drive for Buffy.