Re: SF Writers' Work You Find Unreadable

David Goldfarb <goldfarb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jon A. Bell <esedona3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Anyone else feel this way? Is there another SF writer you try to get into,
but his/her writing just bothers you?

I don't feel that way about Vinge, no; but we've had long threads
in the past discussing C.J. Cherryh, whose writing quite a few
people bounce off of. (I'm one of them.)

Outside of her Dreamstone novels, I'm one of them; I've read some other Cherryh
all the way through but it always feels like I'm slogging through it, and
have to keep checking back 'wait, who was this, and why were they doing
whatever it is?".

Dave
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