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DNF at 29%: I so badly wanted to like this, but I just couldn't get into it. I saw that I was 10 pages in and my reaction was โfuck there's 135 pages left.โ So I quit. This is kind of like a big deal for me, you know? I'd never consciously dropped a book before, wow #characterdevelopment
DNF at 13%: I'm just not interested. Plus. I had the audiobook and some of the narrator's voices grated my ears. Mostly the voice she had for the son. Eh.
DNF at 11%: Oooh, big fat no.
I wanted to listen to the audiobook during work. It was going fine; I didn't really care for Tova yet, and although Marcellus rubbed me off as pompous, he was funny. And an octopus, so of course I could overlook that.
But then, Cameron. Only one chapter into his narration and I was already annoyed. He speaks like an angsty teen that just learned how to swear. He said, โbicep day's been lit at the gym lately.โ How very how-do-you-do-fellow-kids of you, Shelby.
I wasn't enjoying it at all. That change in tone gave me whiplash. It was so dull, I spent close to three hours replaying the chapter because I wasn't taking anything in. I assumed he would make regular interventions, and the feeble interest I had in the other characters was not enough for me to put up with this. As Cameron once said, โ...ugh.โ
The premise sounded really interesting but oh well, on to better books.
5:
Really, I have nothing to say other than this is one of my favorite classics, right up there with Tom Sawyer. Add to this the fact that I found the most incredible and perfectly executed full-cast audiobook version of this story for free on YouTube, and it elevates this to God-tier storytelling. Gosh I'm just DYING to know if there's a similar version for Through the Looking Glass and I just haven't been able to find it.
Alice is one of my favorite heroines in fiction, she's just delightfully off her rocker. This story is just so silly, whipping one-liners at you in quick succession, with boggling attempts at conversation that are entertaining for anyone, small and big. I don't think there ever will be anything quite like it, so everyone stop trying. Chop chop.
DNF at 30%: I can't be bothered to enjoy something that brings up Google THIS much, and Clay is not an interesting enough character to make up for that in my books, I'm afraid.