I read Dragon's Egg and the sequel, Starquake, as a teenager. I remembered them being deeply engrossing. I revisited the first one 20-ish years later in an at

I read Dragon's Egg and the sequel, Starquake, as a teenager. I remembered them being deeply engrossing. I revisited the first one 20-ish years later in an attempt to get my partner interested. I only made it a few chapters before I decided to abandon the attempt. There are some really good parts (the science stuff), but the way the human characters' interactions were described I just could not get past.