Discussion Do You Have A Dropped Novel You Keep Coming Back To?

So, I keep returning to Why Did You Summon Me? because I remember I liked it. However, every time I go back to it, I get about 7 chapters in before I remember why I didn't continue reading it. In this case, the MC/author of Why Did You Summon Me? is disgustingly misogynistic.

There is this one line about women that just hits me like a truck. Then I'm like, "Dang it! I forgot how sexist the author is!" and I immediately drop it. I've done this at least thrice.

Is there a novel you keep going back to, only to remember you dropped it for a good reason?

 

rather than ideas within the novel, no matter if its racist, sexist or anything, i try reading it a go.
only when the novel doesn't have a flow good enough for my rating, would i drop it.

especially those JPN that really betas, or all about fluffy isekai that is overused and too self-centered kind of 'plot', not story. You need characterization in a good story but not that much. it just felt theres no weight between their(MC or Protag) actions.
and like those CN i don't like that basically give FACE or you will die, or this super bs around i must grow stronger and live longer. even more so with 2k+ chapters and a repeated flow to milk in that delicious cash, theres no story at all in these CN, im reading only text before, or maybe ideas thats completely new to me. but now that ideas have run out, and now i dont really like any of it.
KN felt like it was between the two, so yeah.

what i am reading right now, I dont have one pinch of even JPN, i read much of CN because in the midst of quantity theres quality, but few KN.

though i think i like more of the many editors choice of words in describing certain novel. so rather than the author, editors have more contribution in my eyes about a good and wonderful novel. at least 40% editors and TL contribution to novels wellbeing

 

Fff-class trashero

 

Bringing the Farm to Live in Another World

 

i kinda drop it when the alien came with mecha to invade....
you?

 

Sometimes I pick "trash" from streets of NU, as it's littered around. I'm a very selective "trash-picker." It must include " flower vases" and "tunnel-breaking."

 

about the same.
MC and his harem randomly decided to go on a holiday in the middle of an invasion, at the invader's world.

 

I have a literal reading list name 'trash' to avoid this scenario.

 

Nope. Never. If I drop a novel, I'll probably give it a second chance after a few months or years, but if I drop it a second time, I'll never bother with it ever again.

 

Against the Gods. I really used to like the series, but that was before it became such a repetitive cycle of waiting for the MC to be 'alive' yet again. Or get off his ass and actually cultivate. Then there are the long stretches of way too much build up. Still, I tend to come back and binge the story about once a year. I can't read it on a daily basis because of the fore mentioned problems, but binging it can be fun. Until I get close to getting caught up and I feel that the cycle is about to repeat itself again. So, yet again, I drop it for another year or so.

 

It has happened a few times that I start reading a novel, only to realise I've read it before.

At that point, I usually remember why it made 0 impact on me, drop it and move on.

If a novel makes a horrible impression on me, I remember it just as well as one that i absolutely love. So no, not really.

I do get the impression there was one like that a year or two back though, but I can't remember it now.

......probably just cursed myself to accidentally read it again

 

I dropped this one cause the author took my happy moments from it, I go back to see if its changed but hasn't so far

 

nah, i dropped it for good. . .
wanna know which one? that freaking title where he spammed the Hundred Million years Button to train swordsmanship. . .
and welp he still hard pressed against guys who did trained for a what? 15-20 yrs. . .

 

You are a Genius.

 

I have several that i despise but come back to each with their own reason
The current ones im trying to see if i can read are Martial God Asura and Transcending the nine heavens
For martial god asura its only because of how long it is, with that lenght itll probably allow me to satisfy that feeling of bingeing a novel for a long time but i just cant get over the main character and his personality
TTNH was something i loved early on but the "romance" was just horrible that i had to drop it, i was finally able to get past it by ignoring it completely and scanning the text to find where its over but then i reached the part with tie bu tians master and i just stopped. There was no going back for that but for somereason i keep thinking to myself maybe i just remembered incorrectly and try to gove it another go but then i realize nope i remember the story correctly and drop it again

 

It wasn't exactly the same case for me, some might even say it's the reverse. Few years back, Once in a while when I ran out of things to read, I would take a look at some well rated novels, and there I would find Tsuki ga Michibiku. I tried to read it, 6 times. SIX f**king times, and never made it past the prologue chapters. It was so long and so boring, that I never even manage to finish the prologue and get to the numbered chapters.
But one day, when I just couldn't find anything else to read, I decided to simply bulldoze my way through. By the time I reached chapter 10, I couldn't stop reading. The MC went on to become one of my favorites. Since then, I have read the whole novel thrice (to refresh after a long break), save for the prologue.

 

This sounds like me and Savage Divinity.

 

Yeah, if I remember correctly, all the prologue does is prove the Goddess is a completely horrible person. Unfortunately, that was made clear multiple times in the story so it just made the prologue redundant.

 

long live summons, i LOVE the concept and most of the story is so interesting but the protag is just so unbearable

 

I sometimes rebound only because old-a** reviews say it's good and I'm there forgetting what the plot is. I'm an avid reader and I have a Reading List specifically for Dropped series, I'll eventually encounter my nemesis because they'll be in my decent novel's recommended.
> some fluffy is overrated and not utilize in the best way. sad to see that most adaptations pop-up like that
> redundant plot. episodic is fine but why no continuity aside from the lover?
> or convoluted world-building. like I don't want to be face smacked. some long series fall into that pit but I'd rather have the author and reader both forget about that plot point unless it was a one-night binge