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DaveC426913
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I was just browsing the Beloved stories from when you were much younger thread and began thinking about the beloved stories that aren't beloved by me.
I could not make it past the first few chapters of Dune, no matter how many times I tried. I literally kept falling asleep.
Halfway into Foundation, still wondering when the backstory exposition would be done and it would move on to the actual story, I realized, this is the story, and it's not going to spontaneously sprout characters and a plot.
And now, in my third crushing betrayal, I could not finish The Left Hand of Darkness. Virtually the entire story seems to be comprised of pre-meal political chit chat in residence after residence.
I could not make it past the first few chapters of Dune, no matter how many times I tried. I literally kept falling asleep.
Halfway into Foundation, still wondering when the backstory exposition would be done and it would move on to the actual story, I realized, this is the story, and it's not going to spontaneously sprout characters and a plot.
And now, in my third crushing betrayal, I could not finish The Left Hand of Darkness. Virtually the entire story seems to be comprised of pre-meal political chit chat in residence after residence.