At the risk of going off topic and of repeating myself from another thread, I would like to mention some published fiction that agrivates me: Robert Jordan's wheel of time.
I got part way into the third book and just gave up. I read a great deal, but I can count on one hand the number of books in my life I have started but never finished. (Moby Dick and Battlefield Earth being two other notables)
I gave up on Jordan because the story was just going on and on and I didn't care what happend next. The world this takes place in is facinating, but I just don't conect with or care about any of the characters in it. A few characters do provoke an emotional response, but that response is usually to whack them upside the head.
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No, I don't believe the world has gone mad. In order for it to go mad it would need to have been sane at some point.
I got part way into the third book and just gave up. I read a great deal, but I can count on one hand the number of books in my life I have started but never finished. (Moby Dick and Battlefield Earth being two other notables)
I gave up on Jordan because the story was just going on and on and I didn't care what happend next. The world this takes place in is facinating, but I just don't conect with or care about any of the characters in it. A few characters do provoke an emotional response, but that response is usually to whack them upside the head.
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No, I don't believe the world has gone mad. In order for it to go mad it would need to have been sane at some point.