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Originally Posted by issybird
Is there a test on Monday? If not, then of course. Reading time is precious.
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True enough... I have many hobbies, reading being just one of them. My normal reading time is in public transport, but due to Covid-19 I've been working from home for nearly two years.... so I read less, I've noticed.
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I abandon books all the time and should abandon more. Quickly is best, but even later is better than plowing through until the end of something you don’t like. That said, I can reach a point of no return but even at that I can deliberately spoil myself so as to flee.
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Maybe I should just read a summary to see what this "dark secret" is, and indeed abandon the book. I've been watching The Wheel of Time with my GF on Amazon Prime. I like (most of) the series and the world up to this point. I'm watching it as "just a fantasy series" without comparing the adaptation to the books. I have them, but haven't read them yet.
The series is good, but I feel it is missing "something"; background information, subplots, etc. (Which isn't strange: the books are 12.500 pages in total. You can't adapt everything.) In short, at the moment, I feel like starting this series instead of finishing "The Coming Race."
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There’s a reason the Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest has his name, by the way.
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I know. He seems to have been very popular in his day, but nowadays he's seen as one of the worst writers of the Victorian era.
Pity. I liked the start of the book, actually. It felt relatively modern. Stuff happened. But now at 30% through, it's just become 1875-style long-winded socio-whatever writing.