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Three Books
There have been three books this year that I just could not bring myself to finish, even though I read more than half of each of those books.

God Emperor of Dune

I read this rather bizarre book for the first time about a year after I had first read the original Dune. I didn't even know there had been sequels to Dune at this point as my local library was my only source of books and they had never appeared on those shelves. I remember quite enjoying the book then, though puzzled as to why Duncan Idaho had seemingly become so important.
This time the book was unbearable. The pompous archives of Leto's memoirs, the paper flat secondary characters, ah the whole thing just became too painful to continue

The Well Of Stars

The sequel to the strange, yet magnificent, Marrow got abandoned once I realized that the book was never going to advance the plot of the original and that I was meant to care about this new risk to the great ship. I didn't care - resolve the original story!

Beggars and Choosers

I finally picked out this to read from my shelves years after I bought it to finally see where Kress took the story after the end of Beggars In Spain. It was going OK, even though I had next to no time for the new characters until the author killed a character off in a way that the author had not earned. It annoyed me enough that I had to put it down.