I always say to myself that it is not worth to force books through. I do like 1/5th then I drop it if it did not catch me. Now I'm reading Pandora's star which is a great scifi book and sandwitched inbetween the great scfi chapters there is this uninteresting detective storyline with zero scifi, people talking to eachother about uninteresting stuff. I found myself forcing the book and questioned multiple times if I should continue. Then again a great chapter comes with interesting stuff I get hooked and within an eyeglance I'm back into this people talking each other for 30 pages. I will decide if I keep going or not, maybe I try to force it throgh the base storyline is keeping me hooked. Did you had any similar experience? What did you do?
Have you read it? I agree with OP that the first half is utterly hard to get through, but the second half definitely makes up for it.
No (never heard of it). I'm answering to the question "What do you do when a great book has an absolutely uninteresting storyline?", not about this specific book.
If a book has an "absolutely uninteresting storyline", then it's not that "great" to me, so I drop it and get another one.
Agreed! Life's too short to read uninteresting books.