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Originally Posted by j.p.s
I like a good story, but don't require a story be present at all. I also love info dumps.
But turgid prose is turgid prose.
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Oh, nothing wrong with an info-dump now and then. I like background information on characters, locations, customs, whatever... but not in the writing style as shown above, in a stretch of something like 15-20 pages.
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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
Dropping more has been one of my easier reading goals to accomplish. My stats at the StoryGraph show me with 225 finished books so far this year, 28 DNFs, so 1 out of every 9 I started. I'll probably make raising that ratio one of my 2022 goals. Life really IS too short for any of my leisure/recreation time to be wasted wading through content that does not provide an ROI
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Indeed. I when running across that sentence above in chapter 11, I actually deleted the book from my e-reader and started something else. I'm not going to add it again. Instead, I'll add an "Abandoned" column to calibre, and this book has the honor of being the first in it... in my entire life.
I have a massive library of classics thanks to Delphi sales. (Bought in the vein of: "They can't ALL be that bad / dense as I remember from school.") I'll try to read one of those books once in a while, but if I don't like it, it will be abandoned.
Maybe it's a good goal of 2022 and later: if I don't like it, abandon it. There's no test tomorrow, to answer Issybird's question, so there's not a real need to finish a book if I don't want to.