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Atlas Shrugged and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell are two of my DNF. Atlas Shrugged because everyone was so stupid or so evil, I didn't even make it to Galt's speech. Maybe it's because I didn't read it as a teenager. I read The Fountainhead in my 20s and it was OK, but in perusing it several decades later, I can see that Rand seems to only write caricatures, either noble creators or evil parasites.
I got about a third of the way into Jonathan Strange, but it didn't feel like it was going anywhere interesting to me. I may try again some day since I own it, but probably not. I had problems reading David Brin's Earth, but it was one where I was able to pick it up a year or two later and read it all the way through.
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