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Originally Posted by JSWolf
What d you do if a book that catches your fancy at the start ends up dragging in the middle? Me, I stick it out. I remember a book like this very well. I read Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard on the recommendation of a friend. I got about 1/2 way through it and it really started to bog down. And then like 3/4 into it, it could have ended at a numbe rof places. It's like he ended it and then decided to tack more on to it in a number of places. Overall a dreadful book that started off with some promise.
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T. H. White's
The Once and Future King was like that for me. It started great and I was terribly impressed with the writing but half way through it became tortuous for me and it was years before I fought my way through it.
Then there are the books that have me from the very first page and never let up. Hesse's
Demian grabbed me by my internal organs on the first page and I have never let up reading his books since - despite the pretty poor translations from German that I've had.