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Signs you're reading a bad book
1. You tell everyone you know how annoying the book is.
2. You're on page 300 and realize that a good editor would have cut out two-thirds of what you've read.
3. The book is told entirely in first-person, in journals and letters, by seven different characters, and you can't keep them apart in your head.
4. One of the "letters" comprises several hundred pages of the book, obliterating all suspension-of-disbelief.
5. It's a vampire book that is 99% vampire-free, a thriller lacking excitement, and a mystery that is not compelling.
6. You're on page 540 of its 642 pages and haven't touched it in three days.
7. You finish it an immediately start composing a blog entry slamming it.
8. You're reading the inexplicable bestseller The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova.
