DNFs | Reading Hugo & Nebula Winners

I tried to read this before I successfully got through A Deepness in the Sky and A Fire Upon the Deep. Those two are longer books and I didn't really enjoy the style of them.

I tried to read this before I successfully got through A Deepness in the Sky and A Fire Upon the Deep. Those two are longer books and I didn't really enjoy the style of them.

This was wrong book, wrong topic, wrong author at a really, really wrong time. And I don't think I would ever come back to it.

I DNFed it after a real good faith effort because I could sense incoming doubts about a male and female soldiers working together. But at the end of the day, I also didn't really love it. I wasn't interested in the story.

The first book was Homminids. It was one of the award winners actually and that was a really awesome book and then the series devolved.

I recall Rainbow's End having nothing wrong with it. It was even like a shorter book, but I forgot I was reading it. The writing style when I first tried to read it back in 2013 or so was denser or slower than I was used to reading.

One of the issues I really had with the Forever Award was how women were basically treated within their units as constantly sexually available. They had rosters pairing people off like you have to sleep with this person. And it really bothered me.

And the first thing out of his mouth is, "You slut." And I slammed the book shut and I said out loud, "I am not putting up with this." And I DNFed it.

I did eventually go on to read The Water Knife by Bachigaloopy and I really liked that.

But The Windup Girl at first blush had a style that I didn't click with at all. Just I remember it as being really dense, almost obstruuse in a way that I wasn't enjoying. I still think that I could get something out of this book if I tried to reread it, but I'm I'm not quite sure I want to chance it.