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A few years back I bought the B&N leatherbound H.P. Lovecraft fiction collection. Huge book, like 1100 pages of small print.

I was reading a little bit every day when I was still going to the office daily, and I was enjoying it. His early short stories were great, I really enjoy Lovecraft when he goes right into the action. The way he can make you imagine things without giving details is amazing.
However, after covid started and I didn't have to go to the office, I stopped reading it because I still have to do college stuff and I didn't have time any more.

Earlier this year I finished school, so I was able to continue that book again. Great! I was going to enjoy reading the rest of it.

Turns out that I had left off just when he stopped writing short stories and began writing longer histories, almost novellas; and I found myself not enjoying as much. I realized that most of the story was spent describing the locations and other stuff that didn't move the story forward (dude, I don't want to read pages describing New England, stop it!), but I liked them when the horror started, which were the last couple of pages of each story.

I found forcing myself to finish most of his later works. I was afraid that I was losing interest on reading. But after that book I picked up Timeline by Michael Crichton, and holy s**t, what a page turner of a book!

Looks like I have nothing to fear for the moment.