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DNSB · 12-21-2021, 05:26 PM

So far I've only marked 1 book as DNF. But now that I've done it once, it will probably happen more often in the future.

My experience was much like @Katsunami's with the Edward Bulwer-Lytton book in the OP. In the middle of the first chapter, the story was suspended while the author wandered off into an overly long (and, IMHO, unneeded) mass of prose for setting/world building. Back to the story for a few pages and then yet more repetitive world building. Which is where I DNFed the book. Where's an editor when you need one?

12-21-2021, 05:26 PM	#21
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 47,084 Karma: 169815798 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	So far I've only marked 1 book as DNF. But now that I've done it once, it will probably happen more often in the future. My experience was much like @Katsunami's with the Edward Bulwer-Lytton book in the OP. In the middle of the first chapter, the story was suspended while the author wandered off into an overly long (and, IMHO, unneeded) mass of prose for setting/world building. Back to the story for a few pages and then yet more repetitive world building. Which is where I DNFed the book. Where's an editor when you need one?