/lit/ - Literature

/lit/ are there any authors you just could not get into no matter how much you wanted to?

For me it's Vladimir Nabokov. I liked the Defense because it was about Chess, but that's about it. I've really tried to enjoy him but I just don't like his prose.

Also Herman Melville, but I never really tried with him.

Hello /lit/, have any of you fine people read this? If so, what are your opinions about it? My brother said it was good, and I wanted some other input before taking a crack at it

How do you read this book?
- reading the complete poem, than the comments;
- jumping from the poem to the comments

Discuss.