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nah, that’s just you getting older 😉

OTOH … I remember trying to read one of Gibsons’ books. (I think ‘Neuromancer’ ?)
“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
Say what?

I think it depends on how flowery/poetic/alien the language used is that makes it difficult to read.
Which is probably why I doubt I could ever like any GW novels. That need to have odd names and cryptic words for no reason at all just feels silly and awkward instead of interesting.

It might explain why I love listening to the Forever-series. As whenever the main character is introduced to some complicated technobabble or an alien species with a tricky name he is likely to go “Hell nah … I’m going to call you [insert stupid simple name]”.

That reminds me that I may have to listen to a point in the story again where he ends up in a machine that has a ridiculously silly acronym and not until everything goes pear shaped do we realise it was a real moment of ‘does exactly what it says on the tin’.

When listening to audiobooks I definitely have moments where I seem to stop listening and just go into dream state.