I always say to myself that it is not worth to force books through. I do like 1/5th then I drop it if it did not catch me. Now I’m reading Pandora’s star which is a great scifi book and sandwitched inbetween the great scfi chapters there is this uninteresting detective storyline with zero scifi, people talking to eachother about uninteresting stuff. I found myself forcing the book and questioned multiple times if I should continue. Then again a great chapter comes with interesting stuff I get hooked and within an eyeglance I’m back into this people talking each other for 30 pages. I will decide if I keep going or not, maybe I try to force it throgh the base storyline is keeping me hooked. Did you had any similar experience? What did you do?
I had this problem with House of Leaves. The narrator components felt unnecessary, but I didn’t want to read only part of a book. The Navidson Record parts were fortunately compelling enough to pull me through the rest kicking and screaming. I ended up loving it and the narrator sections finally started to pay off to an extent.
If I really like a book or series and there are parts that are very dry to me, I just skim to see if there’s anything I might miss. I rarely have to backtrack.
Pandora’s Star all ties together, give it time. The second book is great too. I’ve read them both like a dozen times!
Believe it or not the detective storyline ties in.
As for the detective she’s methodical but wait until they get into her background too (which will offer some insights as to why)
I like the series but he can be a bit wordy. In the end Hamilton pays off but I completely understand where your coming from.
I’m so excited for OP to read the rest of it! Now I want to read it all over again lol.
Drop it. There are other 1 trillion books out there waiting for you that are worth your time, not like this one.
Have you read it? I agree with OP that the first half is utterly hard to get through, but the second half definitely makes up for it.
No (never heard of it). I’m answering to the question “What do you do when a great book has an absolutely uninteresting storyline?”, not about this specific book.
If a book has an “absolutely uninteresting storyline”, then it’s not that “great” to me, so I drop it and get another one.
