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Originally Posted by JDK1962
I actually stopped reading The Corrections about 100 pages in because I passed indifference and moved into actual dislike of every single character in the book and didn't want to spend another second in their company. Regardless of how good Franzen is as a writer (and technically, he is very, very good).
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A second on that one. It's another candidate for the no-accounting-for-taste file. So many people loved it, while I was hoping all the characters would disappear in a multi-car pile-up about a third of the way through.
But on the subject of a slow-opening for powerful books, both Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks, and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell fit into that category for me. Great novels, but I had to bull through the first 50 pages.