It’s that time of the week again. This time it’s about books you hate to read but still keep reading. Usually I drop a book when I don’t enjoy it but currently, I’m reading a series (Mythical Hero's Otherworld Chronicles) that I absolutely despise with a passion but I still keep grabbing new volumes for some reason that I might need to get checked out.

Does anyone of you have something like that or am I the only masochistic weirdo out here?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've definitely hate-finished books so that I can justify trashing them, but normally I drop the series afterwards.

Dungeon Busters is probably the best example; it so quickly went from mildly interesting concept to grossly misogynistic that I had to keep reading to make sure there wasn't some twist or development to redeem it.

There wasn't. It actually got worse. And confirmed by other female characters to boot. Garbage book.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The one with the cards? I always get it mixed up with the one where they are building a company around level grinding.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The latter, I think, although I forget some details. It was very much a business consultant's power fantasy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Ah, it wasn’t that bad then at least compared to the other one I had in mind. The other one was virtually the same but people could turn into trading cards and MC had his sex slave trading card. I forgot the name of the series, but it’ll come up back again when a new volume is released. I try to remember to point it out then.