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What do you do when a great book has an absolutely uninteresting storyline?

I always say to myself that it is not worth to force books through. I do like 1/5th then I drop it if it did not catch me. Now I'm reading Pandora's star which is a great scifi book and sandwitched inbetween the great scfi chapters there is this uninteresting detective storyline with zero scifi, people talking to eachother about uninteresting stuff. I found myself forcing the book and questioned multiple times if I should continue. Then again a great chapter comes with interesting stuff I get hooked and within an eyeglance I'm back into this people talking each other for 30 pages. I will decide if I keep going or not, maybe I try to force it throgh the base storyline is keeping me hooked. Did you had any similar experience? What did you do?

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  • Drop it. There are other 1 trillion books out there waiting for you that are worth your time, not like this one.

    • Have you read it? I agree with OP that the first half is utterly hard to get through, but the second half definitely makes up for it.

      • No (never heard of it). I'm answering to the question "What do you do when a great book has an absolutely uninteresting storyline?", not about this specific book.

        If a book has an "absolutely uninteresting storyline", then it's not that "great" to me, so I drop it and get another one.

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