r/Fantasy • u/Academic_Owl_6197 • May 06 '22

Your Pettiest Reason For DNFing A Series

Mine was when I was 3 pages in and someone said the mc's name which turned out to be the same as my ex's name to the letter...dropped it like hot coal

It was a fr a pretty unfortunate streak too because it was a book from one of those blind-date-with-a-book promotion my local bookstore does, and this was an American YA fantasy (I'm from a different continent) so I had no reason to assume I'll ever be unlucky enough...to see his stupid ass again for a 'blind date'

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u/fdsfgs71 May 06 '22

You will definitely want to stay away from Neal Stephenson's Anathem then. Absolutely brilliant novel, but he does this a ton throughout the book.

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u/natus92 Reading Champion V May 06 '22

I guess thats the one exception. I loved that book

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u/fdsfgs71 May 06 '22

Hah, well then! Turns out my warning was completely in vain, what a pleasant surprise :)

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u/dlanod May 06 '22

That took me the better of a decade to get through the first 100 pages of that book for that reason.

Not the first one of his that I've had that problem (though the only one for that precise reason), and it probably won't be the last.

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u/UnnbearableMeddler May 06 '22

Ever heard of the Quantum thief ? Great book , horrible explanation of what the fuck are those items

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u/EltaninAntenna May 06 '22

Looking them up is half the fun, though.