# Ever started a good book, and 100 pages in, it takes a turn for the worse?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 27, 2003, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-started-a-good-book-and-100-pages-in-it-takes-a-turn-for-the-worse/197947 "2003-08-27T11:33:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![shelbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@shelbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shelbo)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-started-a-good-book-and-100-pages-in-it-takes-a-turn-for-the-worse/197947/81 "2003-09-05T18:23:02Z")

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_A Prayer for Owen Meany_. Don’t get me wrong, I loved the book. However, as I was reading I was hoping for an epiphany – a reason to believe in God, a source of faith. One character had just always had faith, the other found faith later in life. I was interested in how that happened.

Unfortunately, the answer is that he witnessed, and partook in a miracle, basically. Which is a fine reason to believe in God, but not really that applicable to me, yet.

Great, great book though, which does not really belong in this thread.

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**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-started-a-good-book-and-100-pages-in-it-takes-a-turn-for-the-worse/197947/82 "2003-09-05T19:04:30Z")

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I have been called defective for stating this before but here I go again: I really, really, really can NOT get through **Ender’s Game**. I just can’t find any interest or sympathy for any of the characters.

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**Author:** ![unwashed\_brain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a9adbd/32.png) [@unwashed\_brain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unwashed_brain)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-started-a-good-book-and-100-pages-in-it-takes-a-turn-for-the-worse/197947/83 "2003-09-05T19:15:19Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Doghouse Reilly \*  
> \*\*_Underworld_, by Don De Lillo. \*\*

:smack: I ordered that book from Amazon earlier this week. I hope to disagree with you.

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**Author:** ![Nightime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Nightime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightime)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-started-a-good-book-and-100-pages-in-it-takes-a-turn-for-the-worse/197947/84 "2003-09-05T22:36:31Z")

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There has only been one book I have ever read 100 pages of, and then not finished it. It’s already been mentioned:

_The Cat Who Walks Through Walls_ by Heinlein.

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