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Anonymous Fri Dec 29 20:42:50 2017 No.10465893 [View]
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On a similar note, I read many SFF books this year, averaging fifty pages a day; and yet I was unable to bring myself to finish a number of well regarded volumes: Poul Anderson's Broken Sword, Olaf Stapledon's Star Maker, Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man. I could see that they were all well written, and I was able to finish far more mundane longer works, but these were all re-shelved after a hundred pages because they didn't interest me. Stapledon is the most interesting case because I enjoy the likes of Wells and Lovecraft.

My point is that critical accolades, popularity, and a like of similar authors is still no reliable indication of whether someone will enjoy reading a book.

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