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Torrere · 03-09-2003, 11:19 PM

I recently started reading The Faded Sun Trilogy by C.J. Cherryh, but luckily I managed to stop about halfway through. I disliked the characters and I disliked how Cherryh had done the book. I have a difficult time trying to stop reading books that I don't like -- this might be the fourth time that I've actually succeeded.

Speaking of which, the first time was The Return of the King. After they destroyed the Ring, I couldn't figure out why they had what felt like Aragorn's fifty page walk through the garden, so I just stopped reading.

I've also stopped reading The Wheel of Time, because it has become sessile. I've come to hate reading about Perrin, not because Perrin is all that bad but because I hate everything that has to do with Berelain or Faile. I detest reading about them for hundreds of pages. That's the reason that I use now, but I think that the original reason that I stopped reading the Wheel of Time was that I found The Path of Daggers to be terribly anticlimatic. It felt like things were going to happen, it felt like the Daughter of the Nine Moons thing would come into play -- but there was nothing. It was just about Rand's neurotic problems. Argh!

03-09-2003, 11:19 PM	#28
Torrere a real smartass Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Kirkland, WA Posts: 1,121	I recently started reading The Faded Sun Trilogy by C.J. Cherryh, but luckily I managed to stop about halfway through. I disliked the characters and I disliked how Cherryh had done the book. I have a difficult time trying to stop reading books that I don't like -- this might be the fourth time that I've actually succeeded. Speaking of which, the first time was The Return of the King. After they destroyed the Ring, I couldn't figure out why they had what felt like Aragorn's fifty page walk through the garden, so I just stopped reading. I've also stopped reading The Wheel of Time, because it has become sessile. I've come to hate reading about Perrin, not because Perrin is all that bad but because I hate everything that has to do with Berelain or Faile. I detest reading about them for hundreds of pages. That's the reason that I use now, but I think that the original reason that I stopped reading the Wheel of Time was that I found The Path of Daggers to be terribly anticlimatic. It felt like things were going to happen, it felt like the Daughter of the Nine Moons thing would come into play -- but there was nothing. It was just about Rand's neurotic problems. Argh!