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DNF at ~95%, incredibly. Found this one really boring. Also was my first time trying the Vorkosigan audiobooks and found the narrator pretty flat, so that might have had something to do with it.

DNF. Simply not that interesting in light of current discourse, and has a very cishet, neurotypical perspective. There was a lot more technoutopianism in 1996, a year when "AI" wasn't actually here and materially fucking shit up, and the technoeroticism of the time was mostly boring and small-minded and replicative of heteronormative sex.

DNF at 20% because I'm bored

Attempted to read this book a second time because I wanted to love it, and once again found myself constantly putting it down. DNF 7%.

Reading this made me feel more connected to a lineage of anarcho-socialist movements, but I couldn't get into the outsider art poetry/prose mix and never felt excited to read it.

DNF. Has some very good weird bits, but is not cohering enough to keep me interested.

DNF at 39%

DNF at 79%. This started off with compelling characters and prose but fell off towards the ⅔ mark. Also note one of the authors is Benjanun Sriduangkaew, who has infamously engaged in harmful behavior in SFF fandom.

DNF at 26%

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DNF at 45%

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DNF at 48%. There were some compelling characters in these stories, but I couldn't get into the writing style, which felt forced, like it dragged me along to make me feel something.

After reading 80% of this long book, my library hold expired and I don't think I'm motivated enough to restart. Lots of fantastical ideas in a post-Singularity, post-FTL universe, with not much grounding, and not enough payoff for me. Incidentally, absolutely not "a YA version of Library at Mount Char" (like someone was wondering on this website). DNF

DNF at 9%.

DNF at 13%. Finished the free preview, but not compelled to finish the book.

DNF at 81%. "Long time to stick with a book only to DNF." Well, this is a LONG book, so I'm cutting my losses here. This could have used more editing. It reads like a video game novelization, but in an uncompelling way where I found it hard to get invested in anyone.

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DNF at 4%. I could not get into the prose, character, or how extremely on-the-nose everything was.

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DNF at 34%. Didn't like how the (unspeaking) female character jumped into save our male protagonist and then he was like "it's amazing that (other male character) enabled this!". The worldbuilding is neat but I'm finding myself bored.

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2022 Animorphs reread with OCP #blook-club. Let's Fucking Go.

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DNF at 14%. Not enough characterization for me to care about all of this violence.

DNF at 29%. I wanted more complexity from "Through the Garden of Memory" (the titular story in all but name?). More generally, I found it hard to connect to all the feelings on display—especially the saccharine helplessness characterizing the narrators' love for various children.

I literally could not get past the first ten pages of this. "None of them will survive when I'm through with them!" Everything was just so... _anime_. Turned up to eleven. Worse in first person.

DNF at 32%. Wanted to love this, but even though I liked the novella set in this world, this story and its pacing are not grabbing me.

DNF at 30%. I'm not connecting with these characters, and there's a lot more book ahead...

DNF; this failed to grab me *at all.*