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    • January 14, 2010 by vodou
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    • Why I gave up on what might be the best selling book evar
    • Well, it'd make a fine bathroom book

      I got about 60 pages in -- or about 25 chapters -- and I saw the pattern: extremely short chapters, each one starting with a brief recap of the action that had happened at the end of the previous chapter.

      The author didn't think I was smart enough to remember what had happened on the page I had just turned.

      That, atrocious English, and flat characterization ensured that I will never finish this novel.

       
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    vodou said:
    I also gave up on The Lord of the Rings, because I got to the halfway mark and thought, For a big sprawling action novel, this reads way more like a travelogue.
    posted over 2 years ago

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