Post ASJW6bdT3sKbaysS36 by pgv@omglol.fun
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(DIR) Post #ASJ7wZAMzQZc8owkzo by zamallama@bookstodon.com
2023-02-03T15:14:27Z
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I’ve found that among fellow #readers it’s a common experiences to have a few #books on the shelf that you just can’t get into no matter how much you may want toFor me, these are:Dune SnowcrashWheel of Time (1-14)I’ve heard such great things about all three, but ever time I start one it’s like wading through molassesWhat book(s) do you want to read but can’t seem to get into? #bookstodon @bookstodon @audiobooks #bookish #bookworm
(DIR) Post #ASJ7wb7xhLpsDvprWK by brie@venera.social
2023-02-03T15:47:50Z
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Generally, I tend to finish books... but I failed at Wheel of Time, painfully crawled through Three Body Problem, and lost interest in some middle part of Song of Ice and Fire.
(DIR) Post #ASJ7wcjDkJEXBmH8Ea by anthropoid@woln.eu
2023-02-03T16:10:06.180837Z
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I used to force myself to finish books, but I don’t anymore. I can’t read something I don’t enjoy. From the well-known novels I’ve never finished The Lord of the Rings.
(DIR) Post #ASJGJQpQxEg4ZmZHg8 by rdarmila@101010.pl
2023-02-03T17:43:53Z
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@anthropoid @zamallama @brie You are one happy man. I can't count how many times I promised to myself I'll no longer continue to read books after I decide they suck.
(DIR) Post #ASJVdoTqE5112De3iy by RachelKolar@wandering.shop
2023-02-03T15:18:09Z
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@zamallama @bookstodon @audiobooks I adored The Night Circus. I've tried to read Starless Sea twice and bounced off it both times.
(DIR) Post #ASJVdp4M2KDqrSjDdY by pgv@omglol.fun
2023-02-03T20:35:39.143724Z
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@RachelKolar @zamallama @bookstodon @audiobooks Legit understandable. I almost liked Starless Sea. The big issue I had with it is the ending was a non-sequitur; but what made that frustrating for me is during one of her digressions, she sketches out a perfectly serviceable device to use as the climax goal (memory is fuzzy now, but something about a heart locked away in a box or something), and never uses it.
(DIR) Post #ASJW6aPbbveHnhNrns by notthatkaren@mstdn.social
2023-02-03T15:47:19Z
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@zamallama @bookstodon @audiobooks Yes. Wheel of Time (series) and Malazon Book of the Fallen (series). I feel like these two series are ones that SFF readers should read- but just can't slog through them. Maybe some day...
(DIR) Post #ASJW6b3JEJPLmpxZgm by zamallama@bookstodon.com
2023-02-03T15:50:23Z
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@notthatkaren @bookstodon @audiobooks Wheel of Time is just so much filler, even when you ask fans of the series I’m 75% through the first book and there’s so little going on chapter to chapter I hate to suggest it but I do kinda hope someday someone does an abridged version, I suspect each book would drop to 100-200 pages
(DIR) Post #ASJW6bdT3sKbaysS36 by pgv@omglol.fun
2023-02-03T20:39:39.570896Z
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@zamallama @notthatkaren @bookstodon @audiobooks There is no doubt about it. The numbers of skirts smoothed, and braids tugged numbers somewhere in the high-infinities.