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Originally Posted by frabjous
I just finished Orwell's 1984. It's one of those books that as a Sci Fi fan, I've always felt is a must read, and so many people praise it. I just didn't get it though. Most of it read more like a political treatise than it did as a novel, and a treatise with holes in it, and no counter-suggestion to make. And the rest of it was just needlessly bleak and depressing.
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It was a political treatise disguised as a parody. Very bleak, like most of Orwell's stuff.
I had to ram my way through pretty much all of John Norman's Gor stuff after the first seven or so books in the series. I got so caught up in the narrative about Tarl Cabot that I just had to see what happened. The soft core BDSM stuff got to be waaaaay too much, and i ended up paging past any paragraph that was more than a page long and any chapter that was titled "What occurred..."