Are you kidding me? I read _A LOT_. I personally own somewhere north of 10,000 books, mostly science fiction. Wife and I worked for publishers for many years, it's easy to collect books.
Anyway, of all the books I've read, I can count on 4 fingers the books I've never finshed. I first couldn't get through Red Mars when it came out at some point in the 90s. About 5 years ago I decided I would muscle through it. I got through Red, Blue and halfway into Green and gave up. There were two fun parts in that melodramatic, communist Utopian dreck. When the elevator fell and the cable wrapped around the planet and when Phobos was de-orbited.
The most frustrating part was that he'd introduce someone, you get to know them for 150 pages then without explaining anything, they're just gone. Just jump to new characters doing nothing of consequence until..poof, new characters again. It is like a stream of conscience missive that starts nowhere and ends nowhere. Pure garbage.
i agree a tough read,but i really enjoyed the creative solutions to making Mars habitable.
I only own some 500 books now,also mostly sci fi but due to space limitations i can say i’ve given away at least 5 times that number. i still own Pebble in the sky purchased at the P.S. 42 book fair when i was in 3rd grade some 46-7 years ago.
Just for the hell of it,i read close to 100 books a year which is ALOT and considering my age that works out to some 4000 in my life since i was not reading as much or as fast as a youngster. I’m impressed by the size of your library but find it difficult to fathom how you’ll ever have time to read them all.