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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
I'm so picky about the books I buy
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Ditto.
Some 7 years ago I happen to be a bit less careful and ordered 6 paperback books by
S. Donaldson The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (1st and 2nd trilogies of the series)....poor me
I managed to read only 100 pages of the first book, could not stand the whining protagonist. So, I ditched the books, although I paid lots of money for them. I lived in Israel then and was ordering books from Amazon.com.
Another big frustration was The Redemption of Althalus by Eddings&Co. but I was preparing for some tests and didn't want to read something good
, so I read the book ...and it went to oxfam second hand book shop on the next day I finished it.
There are only 2 books I literaly forced myself to read in the past 6 years, albeit I didn't like them. They were gifts from my older brother and I thought I must read them because they must be good if he has chosen the books for me. The books are
The Wind-up Bird Chronicles by
Haruki Murakami and
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by
Milan Kundera. I am not going to repeat the same mistake again though, twice is more than enough