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I can recall only once when I put down a book in disgust. Oddly, it was the second time I read it. The first time I read Jeanne Cavelos's triology The Passing of the Techno-mages, it was an interesting read which filled in a lot of information that would have been revealed in the TV series Crusade if it had not been cancelled. I began reading it through again a few years later, and realized that the cheerful alien child Fa exists only to suffer. From her disdainful treatment on her first appearance until her death while being tortured, something bad happens every time Cavelos brings her out. I became so irritated that I only made it to p. 128 of the first book; I can tell because I see the bookmark is still there years later. So apparently, what kills a book for me is sadism.
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