I just can't do it. I'm currently wasting the 2nd or 3rd week plowing through an 800 page monster of a German scifi/fantasy author that I wanted to give another try and it's making me miserable. the main characters are so annoying, the main girl is so quirky and not-like-other-girls and the plot line has repeated itself like 3 times already. apparently this book is for teens, which I didn't know before (not that it matters) but as a teen those protagonists would've made me a thousand times more furious than they do already. Besides the question of why anyone would ever write this and who could read it without getting an aneurysm, the question I ask myself most often during this is how you guys manage to DNF a book without feeling super bad for several weeks after? Logically, I know I'm wasting my time and getting no enjoyment out of this, but I'm halfway through and do kinda want to know how it ends, but I couldn't have DNF'ed it even at page 50. I can't even think of one fiction book I actually stopped reading because I didn't enjoy it (for nonfiction, well, I can't even finish the books I AM interested in). So how does one learn this ancient art?
by coolestdudette