We all have at least one: the title(s) that you still haven't finished weeks, months, even years after you started reading it, but nevertheless you are determined to finish... someday.

Let's commiserate. What's on your stuck book list?

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[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It was just A LOT of reading, but it was The Big Book of Cyberpunk by Jared Shurin. It was a whopping 1000 pages of double paragraphed pages, so 2 columns of writing. It covered a a bunch of different “topics” while covering stories from the beginning (60s?) to when it was written. The topics included “Self”, “culture” “post human”, among a few others that I can’t recall right now.

It made me realize, as much as I love Scifi, I don’t like cyberpunk, I need “Space” in my stories.

I did actually finish last week! I would a few stories every few weeks while reading my other material. I loved it for the concept and history of Cyberpunk, but as mentioned, the stories were meh, but that’s a me thing. Great book otherwise.

Dune was dry in a few places and took me longer than usual to read, but part of that was just digesting everything, really technical reading, really slows you down.

Edit, oh wow, I checked my phone, and I bought it Oct 26/24. So took me just about a year to read it! It’s a beast.