/lit/ - Literature

This is my biggest literary fear. Many books I've read don't get good until 50-75% of the story and I only finish them because of the acclaim or prestige behind the book. It makes me nervous because I don't think I'd read such books if it weren't for their praise. Which in turn makes me feel worried/inadequate to read books that weren't based on any recommendations.

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We are born into this time and must bravely follow the path to the destined end. There is no other way. Our duty is to hold on to the lost position, without hope, without rescue, like that Roman soldier whose bones were found in front of a door in Pompeii, who, during the eruption of Vesuvius, died at his post because they forgot to relieve him. That is greatness. That is what it means to be a thoroughbred. The honorable end is the one thing that can not be taken from a man.