Can't think of any that I have never finished. I certainly put a lot to one side and pick them up months later, but that's more down to the mood I am in for that type of story.
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Wow, I think this is probably one of the first times I've heard about somone not liking IC. But, I guess as they say, to each his own.
Really? I seem to recall a bunch of people around here who don't like Immortal Coil.
Not me, of course. It's one of my favorites.
It just seemed like every other page something MORE ridiculous and crazy happened. Like the book was just a big game of one-upmanship over the last chapter. Great concept and story outline, but the execution had me shaking my head.
i feel it is. Warped, Well of Souls and Ship of The Line are the top three bad books to sit down and attempt to read IMO.
As I stated before, in the worst Trek books thread, Deny Thy Father ended up going back to the library half done. More recently, Sword Of Damocles. I plan on going back to it soon, 'cause so many people around here seem to love it, but the overly florid and turgid prose just did me in about a hundred pages in to the thing.
I don't remember whether I finished the book or not -- and I no longer remember the plot -- but I remember having a tough time getting through the late John Ford's How Much for Just the Planet? I didn't like having the song lyrics without having some idea of the melody. I had the same problem with all the songs in J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.
I'm going to have to reread it one of these days. It was definitely different, but I remember liking it. Doesn't hurt that I was a K.W. Jeter fan well before the book was published, or that I'm also a longtime Philip K. Dick fan (there's a strong PKD influence operating in this book).
I've finished every Star Trek novel I've started reading, though some took more effort than others. Warped was not a problem. Neither was Well of Souls, for that matter.
I really like that one. Great worldbuilding with the Jarada, one of the more imaginative depictions of an alien race in Trek lit.
Even if I'm struggling, I force myself to finish the book.
Now, as for picking it again... I finished Shadow Lord and have not yet managed to bring myself to go through it again.
Now, as for picking it again... I finished Shadow Lord and have not yet managed to bring myself to go through it again.
There was a book about the Jarada? Cool! Checks out Amazon...
I have yet to finish the Bajor part of Captain's Peril. The TOS story is pretty good, but something about Kirk being on Bajor and having orb experiences and meeting Prophets and thwarting occupation Cardassians drove me insane.*
*disclaimer - some of those things may not have happened.
*disclaimer - some of those things may not have happened.
I made it about 25 pages into "The Farther Shore" before realizing I was REALLY bored...then I started wondering how I finished "Homecoming."
For some reason, the first time I picked up Crucible: McCoy I only made it through a few chapters before setting it down and forgetting about it. I picked it up again about a year later, and now it's one of my favorite Trek books of all time.
For some reason, the first time I picked up Crucible: McCoy I only made it through a few chapters before setting it down and forgetting about it. I picked it up again about a year later, and now it's one of my favorite Trek books of all time.
The first Time reading Titian: Taking Wing but months later when I restarted it I flew right through it and loved it.
And ofcourse Titian: Orion's Hounds
which was a very good book in the graet series but it didn't fit me on a personal level very well so it took me a wek to read it instead of one two or three days like the other 3.
And ofcourse Titian: Orion's Hounds
which was a very good book in the graet series but it didn't fit me on a personal level very well so it took me a wek to read it instead of one two or three days like the other 3.
I "finished" this duology by skipping over chapters.
I learnt after Twilight and Serpents that if it's a DRG3 book, then it'll take me a long time to read the first couple of chapters, and then one night to finish the rest. Maybe because I was expecting a slow start, I found the first few chapters of C: McCoy enjoyable.
Some of the SCE novelizations.
'Well of Souls' was pretty bad, but I finished it.
'Well of Souls' was pretty bad, but I finished it.
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