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do you ever have a motivation problem like that?

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I resisted reading Harry Potter for a long time. When I finally started the series (sometime between when books 3 and 4 came out) I got hooked.
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Star Maker. I gave it a shot, but I'm not even sure it's a novel.
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I had the same thing with Runes...
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Eons ago in this thread I mentioned my difficulty in starting LOTR. It took me a long time, but this year I finally got over Tolkien's style and managed to enjoy the books.
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matrixman wrote:Eons ago in this thread I mentioned my difficulty in starting LOTR. It took me a long time, but this year I finally got over Tolkien's style and managed to enjoy the books.
Yay! I love LotR. Glad you were able to enjoy them.
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Farm Ur-Ted wrote:Star Maker. I gave it a shot, but I'm not even sure it's a novel.
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Personally, it's a masterpiece. Oh well, each to their own.
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matrixman wrote:Eons ago in this thread I mentioned my difficulty in starting LOTR. It took me a long time, but this year I finally got over Tolkien's style and managed to enjoy the books.
Was it the flashbacks?
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Auleliel wrote:I resisted reading Harry Potter for a long time. When I finally started the series (sometime between when books 3 and 4 came out) I got hooked.
I resisted reading HP until all seven books were out. Then I read it straight through. Said "meh". And moved on.
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Loremaster wrote:
Farm Ur-Ted wrote:Star Maker. I gave it a shot, but I'm not even sure it's a novel.
8O 8O

Personally, it's a masterpiece. Oh well, each to their own.
Does it have any dialogue? I read the first 15-20 pages, and I'm not even sure there were any characters. It was just a bunch of philosophical musing, which isn't my cuppa.
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Sword of Truth. I've tried several times, but I really can't seem to get passed the writing style. I find myself thinking I could've written it better.
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jacob Raver, sinTempter wrote:
matrixman wrote:Eons ago in this thread I mentioned my difficulty in starting LOTR. It took me a long time, but this year I finally got over Tolkien's style and managed to enjoy the books.
Was it the flashbacks?
The flashbacks didn't bother me. I just had a hard time adjusting to Tolkien's "dream-like" prose, if I may call it that. His language sometimes took on flights of fancy that made it hard for me to comprehend what he was trying to say. But as I said, I got over it (for the most part).
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Farm Ur-Ted wrote:
Loremaster wrote:
Farm Ur-Ted wrote:Star Maker. I gave it a shot, but I'm not even sure it's a novel.
8O 8O

Personally, it's a masterpiece. Oh well, each to their own.
Does it have any dialogue? I read the first 15-20 pages, and I'm not even sure there were any characters. It was just a bunch of philosophical musing, which isn't my cuppa.
No it does not, but the book is a journey; dialogue would just get in the way.
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matrixman wrote:
jacob Raver, sinTempter wrote:
matrixman wrote:Eons ago in this thread I mentioned my difficulty in starting LOTR. It took me a long time, but this year I finally got over Tolkien's style and managed to enjoy the books.
Was it the flashbacks?
The flashbacks didn't bother me. I just had a hard time adjusting to Tolkien's "dream-like" prose, if I may call it that. His language sometimes took on flights of fancy that made it hard for me to comprehend what he was trying to say. But as I said, I got over it (for the most part).
I had the same struggle with the 'dream-like prose' (good description!) - and struggled through the Fellowship... but managed to get past it and enjoyed the rest of the story.
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A song of ice and fire -- a couple my watcher friends reccomended it, and SRD himself likes it, but its too damn convoluted for me to get through.
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I'm trying to get up the nerve to try Gene Wolfe's, Evil Guest again. Got about 30-40 pages into and put it down last time. Too confusing. But read a good review of it in Wierd Tales and wondering if I ought to give it another chance.
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