Verbose Article Complaints

Users repeatedly express frustration with a long, meandering article or book review, often stopping after a few paragraphs due to its lack of conciseness and failure to reach the main point.

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NOTHING NASA reading book stopped reading read paragraph stopped started reading couldn paragraphs finish

Sample Comments

jsd1982 Mar 7, 2024 View on HN

The smug is hard to get past; stopped reading a few paragraphs in.

cbd1984 Jun 23, 2015 View on HN

I can't be the only one who found it unreadable.

mrfusion Jun 6, 2020 View on HN

I barely had the attention span to read this :-(

ajsnigrutin Sep 24, 2021 View on HN

Thanks... i started reading, it read like a novel, talking about everything but the stuff i wanted to know, and yeah... I stopped reading.

obpe Jan 8, 2025 View on HN

I stopped reading after the umpteenth paragraph not mentioning the book.

polyanos Jul 19, 2020 View on HN

While at least on subject, it was quite a pain to read in my opinion.

alottafunchata Sep 11, 2019 View on HN

I honestly couldn't read past the third paragraph. Yawn.

idlewords Oct 27, 2016 View on HN

I got tired reading this, but had gotten too far not to finish.

jurip Jun 27, 2025 View on HN

Yeah I don't get it. I had to stop reading after a couple of sentences, I just can't deal with that.

throwaway7645 Jul 27, 2017 View on HN

Did u enjoy it? I started reading it, but stopped early on.