On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 10:29:24PM -0400, Robert Wood <bertowud at gator.net> wrote: > > Sheer stupid stubborness at refusing to NOT stop reading a series even > > when it's awful and you know you're wasting your time? That's why I > > kept reading. I kept thinking, "Oh, maybe it'll get better. Or....I'm > > so close, I might as well finish now." > That's kinda how I felt for the last third of Battlefield Earth. You GOT to the last third of Battlefield Earth? (Before I found out about Elron, I tried, I really *tried* to finish that book... I even tried to get past the first chapter! Because it was clearly science fiction, and the library had a copy, and they had almost no other science fiction.) -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org)