As I mentioned on the book friending meme, I picked up Hopscotch back in the day because a (male :P) friend had been blown away by it, and I knew my father was also a Cortazar fan. But while I did not get very far in my own read, "Borges did it better" was kind of my main takeaway from that attempt.
Kim Stanley Robinson is another author I've bounced off, and I think it's to do with his prose, yeah. There's just something so... whatever the opposite of "engrossing" is in how he write? In a subjective way, of course, but for me. I attempted the Mast Trilogy at a time when I very rarely DNF'd books and just couldn't make it very far, and on years when I'm doing Hugo Awards homework reading, I've had the hardest time getting through even the self-imposed limit of 50 pages for a novel when it comes to KSR. It's kind of too bad, because reading the Wikipedia entries for his books, he has some interesting premises, and I respect thorough worldbuilding. I just apparently really cannot handle it written like this.
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As I mentioned on the book friending meme, I picked up Hopscotch back in the day because a (male :P) friend had been blown away by it, and I knew my father was also a Cortazar fan. But while I did not get very far in my own read, "Borges did it better" was kind of my main takeaway from that attempt.
Kim Stanley Robinson is another author I've bounced off, and I think it's to do with his prose, yeah. There's just something so... whatever the opposite of "engrossing" is in how he write? In a subjective way, of course, but for me. I attempted the Mast Trilogy at a time when I very rarely DNF'd books and just couldn't make it very far, and on years when I'm doing Hugo Awards homework reading, I've had the hardest time getting through even the self-imposed limit of 50 pages for a novel when it comes to KSR. It's kind of too bad, because reading the Wikipedia entries for his books, he has some interesting premises, and I respect thorough worldbuilding. I just apparently really cannot handle it written like this.