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jphistory t1_j29yfs1 wrote

Reply to comment by dejabean in Next Book Syndrome by Successful-Design972

This is what I was going to suggest! I always have at minimum two books going because my spouse and I read together every night (so basically I have my book and our book) and when I am in the middle of reading but getting that feeling of wanting to move on, I just do it. Most of the time I go back, but sometimes the time away is enough to help me realize I am not feeling something. I read for fun, so why torture myself for fun?

Having said that, I should confess that my spouse and I just picked up Antkind to read together next year, so I guess I'm OK with a little torture in good company, haha.

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ErisEpicene t1_j2a8y5g wrote

Antkind is actually tentatively the book I am feeling this over. Sewer, Gas, and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy isn't as weird and trippy as I had hoped. Its obvious nods and homages to Illuminatus! only emphasize how sane and low risk it actually is. Meanwhile people seem to struggle to describe Antkind the same way I do Illuminatus! and it has me riled up. But I'm gonna ignore the advice posted here by a few people and make myself finish SGE: TPWT. Seeing books through is an important part of my reclamation of reading from trauma. And I want to have as much context and detail as possible to work up a good analysis of the book's--thus far increasingly problematic--"electric negro problem" and other race issues.

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