got the notion to read the dark tower books last month. read up to 3 (waste lands) 20 years ago. remember liking that one.
first book bored me.
second one (drawing of the three) is just starting to entertain a bit 40% in. ganbatte, book.
hoping the long-term investment is worthwhile.
this is a pretty common thing for me, i hear people rave about something and try it for myself, only to completely fail to feel engaged.
major example, i thought the silo / wool series was awful. it's known that the author paid for many of his amazon reviews, but i even had a friend recommend the series.
i wonder if my taste is just different from most. seems very choosy.
@alyx I have similar problems myself. I seem to be an extremely picky reader nowadays. Perhaps one in fifty books I read gives me awe, and the rest are all more or less boring.
That's a terrible waste of time. I'd like to read amazing books, but I don't know how to find them. Almost all the recommendations seem to fail me (mostly friends, in this case), and only randomly picked books seem to have any chance to be awesome.
I've tried hard to find new ways to get recommendations and pick books, with little success.
@Stoori i hear ya. and me, i'm not the voracious reader i was as a kid, so i might read 5 books a year (i know, sad) so it takes a lot longer to get through those 50!