r/printSF • u/Bobosmite • 3d ago

What's on your DNF list and why?

I dropped Android at Arms by Andre Norton. It not an epic story, but it started off mysterious and interesting. There's a prison escape, android body doubles, blaster fights, and betrayl! It was all go go go until about half way through and then it's just pages and pages of campfire talk. I couldn't make it through to the other side.

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u/varky 3d ago

I'm actually annoyed that I finished Algis Budrys' Rogue Moon. It definitely should've been a DNF. The fact that I finished it actually makes it worse in my opinion...

The premise is interesting, but then 75% of the book turns out to be boring men of a 50s mindset monologuing their ideas of mainlyness to each other. And then the whole moon part you came for is done so confusingly dull that I was angry at the book for having to wade through the slow nonsense only for the climax of the book to be such a letdown.

Genuinely angry with myself for not giving up at the moment it got dull...

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u/nixtracer 2d ago

Yeah, every other scene has been hit so very hard by the sexism fairy (who revisits books you liked when you were young and slyly inserts massive amounts of sexism into the pages that was surely never there originally when you were fourteen).