/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I've been reading Kino no Tabi for about a month now and I'm only on chapter 2. I just can' get into it and the writing style feels really weird to me.

And I can't understand why the author made the first two stories start out exactly the same. Half of the story is getting to a new country, they look everywhere but no one is there. I can understand that this type of plot might come up more than once in a long series, but why would you start out your book with two stories that are so similar?

I only like to read one thing at a time and I don't like dropping them either, so I often get into these situations where I don't want to continue but can't move on to something else. Really annoying.