Thread: Books You Finally Got Around to Reading - And Wish You Hadn't
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Old 01-08-2020, 01:41 AM   #48
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Originally Posted by issybird View Post
Yup, this is the kind of book that occurs to me off the top of my head. Two loathsome examples are the Ice and Fire books and the Dragon Tattoo books (the ones written by Larsson). Why I finished them I'll never know; momentum, mostly.
100% agree on the Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, which I abandoned with extreme prejudice. I found it dire, as I did Stranger in a Strange Land. I managed to read other Heinleins in my younger years, including some that people find much worse than SiaSL (The Number of the Beast, anyone?[1]), but apparently these days my patience for him is far lower.

The book I most regret not abandoning was Love in the Time of Cholera. It was, shall we say, Not For Me.

[1] ETA: Snap, gmw. I hadn't read the second page of posts before responding.
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