Submitted by JonathanCue t3_10mt6q0 in books
Recently I tried to read Robert Jordan's 'Eye of The World' and was super excited because it had one of the best introductions to a book that I had ever read; but as I read on and on and got about halfway through it (and it's a sizeable book, lemme tell ya) I just couldn't bring myself to read any more.
Everything starts out wonderfully, including the characters; but then for whatever reason as the journey goes on they just slowly become the most unpleasant people you've ever met. The only character who *wasn't* near constantly insufferable was the protagonist, but he was only not constantly insufferable when he was with his father. After the gang sets out, it's just a near constant stream of judgement, cynicism, impatience, brattiness, and just about every other unpleasant personality trait there is. I ended up looking up the series as a whole to see other people's opinions on it and if it got better, and most people admitted that it didn't, and in some cases even got worse; and I just realized that, however good the world is, if I'm just going to groan every time the characters have to interact with eachother, I'd rather have 'wasted' 15 hours than waste 90 more *trying* to like it.
What about you? What made you drop a heavy investment?