I can understand that.
I've tried: American Gods and Stardust, couldn't get all the way through either. Did get all the way through Coraline, and hated the lead all the way through the book. Neil Gaiman is one of those authors that feel the need to overexplain all the things.
Is the stardust book really this short? I found a .pdf and its only 100 pages.
Supposed to have 256 pages.
I hate that. Leave something to our imaginations.
Pdf file are always shorter, since 1 pdf page is 2 to 3 book pages.
He's not Stephen King bad, but not too far away from it.
You mean like Nathaniel Hawthorne? Dude who wrote The Scarlet Letter, he was soooooo bad about overexplaining things. And in Early colonial English too. In his book The House of Seven Gables, he spent three pages describing a freaking room. One freaking room.
Yeah I just pretend all that shit doesn't exist.
The books were in the supermarket here a few years ago. I read 1 page and lost 10 iq ponts.
-sigh- some idiot in HS used it for their weekly read. Basically our teacher had us read one or two pages out loud to the class from a book we were reading. I felt myself getting dumber as they read on.
That sounds like fun. I would pick the most inappropriate stuff to read in class. 
Yeah I didn't have the balls to do that. The book I was reading was inappropriate, but I found a few pages that weren't too dirty. Especially since I'd been in trouble for that before.
In middle school I did a book report on Queen of the Damned, and got banned from being Anne Rice to school.
In middle school I did a book report on Queen of the Damned, and got banned from being Anne Rice to school.
Honestly, I would pick a children's book about ducks or something and ace the class :vanora_xd:
Actually yeah. In my senior history class we had to do a book report on any historical subject we chose. However we could only choose from those like ten page early reader books you give to first graders. When I asked why I was told, it was because no everyone in our class could read above that reading level. 17-19 year olds who could not fucking read.
That's honestly amazing. I didn't think that could happen in a non-third world country. Impressive!
Always ping me please.
Every class, even math, was tailored around people with weak reading skills. So we'd have to stay on a subject longer than usual because we had to keep explaining things to the idiots.
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Having you as a Voltie would be awesome.