For me it’s ACOTAR series. I read the first 4 books on my kindle, then took a break and listened to Demon Copperhead audio in the meantime. DC shook my world, and when I went back to last book of ACOTAR, I just couldn’t go on. I am absolutely not beneath booktok or romantasy, but it just seemed so ridiculous lol.
DNF’ed and started Lonesome Dove on my kindle!
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DNFing Lonesome Dove is crazy lol.
I DNF’d Oathbringer (book 3 of Stormlight Archive). I wanted it to be more adult high fantasy and it was like borderline YA anime. So much potential wasted on accessibility.
Moby Dick. It wasn’t intentional. I got over halfway into it. I was much younger at the time, maybe 20 and it was a complete slog for me but I wanted to finish it. I liked the story, but I think it was the random chapters about the whaling industry that did me in.
At this point I’d need to start over and that’s not going to be priority for me for a while.
Probably Malazan. Not because it wasn’t great! I just got kinda befuddled on the 6th book and fell off it. Now it’s been too long, I’d have to start at book 1 because I’ve forgotten everything, and it’s just too much book for me lol
Sometimes series just go on for longer than they should. ACOTAR seems like one of those that just kept going because it was making money 🤷♀️ Or maybe I just didn’t care about the plot, I fell off after book 2
This may be controversial, but I was once a diehard Brando Sando fan, but the current Stormlight book has me in a tailspin. I just don’t know how to get through it.
The Silmarillion. I tried, but just couldn’t.
House of Leaves was the longest to DNF. The Stand was 17 start from the beginnings before I finished it.
Fucking Stormlight Archive. Book 4 was such a drag and had a bunch of contrivances occur to resolve the relationship between Kaladin and his dad.
>!Personally I thought it would have been so much more interesting if Odium took his dad as host to force the issue of his pacifism and take it to such an extreme that he would rather submit to the god of hatred rather than fight against it. Instead, Kaladin saves his life and suddenly everything is peachy between them. !<
Probably The Rise of Endymion. It’s the third book in the Hyperion Cantos but the tone shift is so jarring it really should be considered a different series. Honestly though, I would have finished it anyway but the narrator and main character Raul was just soooo multi-talented and buff and tall and, somehow, despite being in his mid-twenties at the start, soooo experienced in so many different domains. I hung in there as long as I could but when he starts talking about hooking up with the girl he has been protecting since she was a child now that she’s (15/16?) and he’s in his thirties I was like nah I’m out.
I bowed out of *The Wind up Bird chronicle* after 350 pages or so. I had read one of his before and didn’t love it, and Wind Up was even weirder and harder for me to follow. I just accepted he’s not for me. Nothing wrong with that.
The wheel of time, so many times. I always start them, and absolutely love the first few books. Get through them quick, and keep powering through 4-6, then after that I just peter out. I’ve gotten as far as book 10 I think, but I’ve probably DNFed every book from 7-10 a couple times each. There is just too much there, happening too slowly.
I’ve finally given up. I sold all my books recently and someone else can try to get through it.