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I usually drop a book after the first 30-50 pages if it doesn't hold my interest. However, sometimes I do slog through and find that about one-third of the way through it has improved significantly. I recently read -- to completion -- a book that I can't figure out why I read it to the end except that I was reading it while on my treadmill so it read in one ear and out the other. (I also suspect that I read it to the end because it was the first e-book I had bought and so stubborness took over from common sense.) Anyway, the book was Savage Survival by Darrell Bain. I found the "jacket" description excellent and so purchased the book. Although the storyline had great potential, the characters were more wooden and uninteresting than watching a tree grow for 3 hours. I'm now reading Crown of Slaves by Rick Cook, one of the Baen free downloads, and it is well-written. I plan to buy other Rick Cook books now that I have sampled his writing.
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