/lit/ - Literature

The remake was better

not finishing a book is dishonourable, no matter how hard it is to read on.

i liked TTL. a lot of doorstoppers i've stopped mmidway. w&p (despite liking AK), guermantes way (despite liking swann's), 2666, magic mountain (despite liking buddenbrooks). gravity's rainbow (expected, disliked V.), ulysses

>>15228418

What duty is there to read something that is of no value to you?

>>15228550
how do you know it has no value if you haven't finished it?

>>15228555
>how do you know that Dan Brown is a bad writer if you haven't read every single word he ever wrote

>>15228630
pardon me, my good chap, but you seem to have not noticed the trips of truth. any further arguing is futile, you are banished.

I never finished anything.

Never finished
>high school
>college
>99% of books
>most TV series (just stop watching)
>many movies
>applications (I'll fill about half and then stop)
>forms
>even bottles of water when people give them to me
Just can't finish things. I can start on them. I can do a good job. But it ends in the middle or near the end. Just can't bring myself to completion. Once I start tiring or noticing any perceptible decline in work, I just stop.

way too many to list

>>15228418
Do you watch movies all the way through too? That kind of attitude to finish something you are not enjoying seems like madness to me.

it was just dragging too much. also I was often confused by the names, like sometimes I had no idea who he was referring to.
idk I might listen to the audiobook someday.

>>15228756
to be clear I did not read this translation, it's just a cool cover

>>15228743
because you may start enjoying it if you keep watching it. when i was younger i struggled to watch even the first hour of Fellowship of the Ring because i was bored but i am glad i kept watching.

>>15228550

(Let's ignore the difference between a book being hard to finish and a book being valueless.)

Obviously it's also your duty to avoid starting any book which won't be of value to you.

No-one said living a virtuous life was easy.

>>15228398
I'll start over one day, but I'm still trying to figure out what's so great about the scenes where Murakami sexualizes Mari's sister

>>15228659
faggot

>>15228657
>>15228756
plens

>>15228671

Secretly burying rape babies in the churchyard against the priest's demands couldn't make this book interesting so I didn't read to see if there were something later on.

I even made a thread complaining about how insanely difficult it was for me to understand anything on this book.

>got assigned this for HS AP lit
>opened the book and read the first sentence
>never touched it again in my life

>>15228418
This, I don't remember a book I didn't finish, despite how boring or bad it was.
But I struggled with a lot of Stephen King novels, really don't know why he is praised so much

This and American Gods just fucking sucked, read about 30 pages of each

I started to read it at 9

>>15228671
>high school

>>15228398
Crime and punishment

>>15228671
well you finished typing this post

>>15229269
never did. Dropped out a little into 9th grade and took the GED around the time I would have graduated.

>>15229086

Seduction baby, rather than rape baby. Although perhaps the difference, as someone once said, is only a matter of technique.

It's a great book. But if it bored you, you did right to stop reading it.

>>15229257

American Gods is much better written than the Dresden Files stuff, from what I remember.

The Brother's Karamazov
I didn't dislike it, just got to busy at the time, really need to revisit it sometime

>>15229259

Have you tried it since? You might find it's quite an easy read now.

>>15228398
Oliver Twist was one of the books my Englih Lit A-level had to do on Aspects of Crime in literature but I actually never read the whole thing through.

I'm halfway through gravity's rainbow

Set it down for a year

Should I finish it or does doin this make me garbage

>>15229405
I disliked both, but Dresden FIles was much worse