minus-squarerotkehlchen@sh.itjust.workstoScience Fiction@lemmy.world•What criteria do you use to determine whether a book is worth your time?linkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-21 year agoMy criteria aren’t as complex. I usually read the summary or the first sentences and if there is an idea that sounds new to me I will read the book. If it annoys me in the first 100 pages I give up. linkfedilink
minus-squarerotkehlchen@sh.itjust.workstoGames@sh.itjust.works•Help finding an old text based gamelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoZork? linkfedilink
minus-squarerotkehlchen@sh.itjust.workstoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What book are you in the middle of reading right now?linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoZodiac by Neal Stephenson. I like the narrator’s “voice”. linkfedilink
My criteria aren’t as complex. I usually read the summary or the first sentences and if there is an idea that sounds new to me I will read the book. If it annoys me in the first 100 pages I give up.