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ITT books that you've put down and won't be picking back up for the foreseeable future

>> No.12174799

>>12174790
I'm reading Chapter III, why did you give up?

>> No.12174826

Difficulties with the language, OP?

>> No.12174829
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12174829

>>12174790
Read 150 pages or so. Probably gonna donate it to a bookstore.

>> No.12174832

>>12174829
You should donate it to a public library.

>> No.12174856
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12174856

This shit here. Maybe it makes me an idiot but fuck me of this shit isn’t hard to follow. I’m not sure whos talking, who’s thinking or if they’re actually talking out loud or thinking in the first place or if they’ll ever get to the lighthouse or just think and talk about how nice it would be to go. I’ve tried four times to read this shit over the past two years.

>> No.12174859

>>12174832
The bookstore I'm talking about is where I dump all the books that I'm done reading or that I think are shit. It's a charity and they sell it for really cheap.

>> No.12174882

>>12174829
It’s a great book, why don’t you like it?

>> No.12174888

>>12174829
I had to stop at the beginning of chapter 6 or 7. Not becausei did not like it but because a jew requested a loan out of the library, and my date extension was denied.

>> No.12174941

>>12174799
>>12174826
I stopped around 200 pages because I got bored of reading 2 page long descriptions of landscapes and battles. The language is really beautiful but I just wanted the plot to hurry the fuck up and move along. I also didn't find the Judge as captivating as other /lit/ posters hyped up him up to be. Am I a pleb? Is the ending worth trudging through the rest of the book?

>> No.12175074

>>12174882
I found it uninteresting and uninsightful, but, of course, I didn't read it in its entirety.

>> No.12175090

>>12174941
>Is the ending worth trudging through the rest of the book?
Yes.

>> No.12175723

Mario Puzo's The Godfather

>> No.12175725

Complete works of Aristotle
So fucking long, so fucking dry

>> No.12175993

>>12174790
how many times can one man use the word 'and'

>> No.12176723

>>12174829
I also quit this.

Just felt pointless reading a comic novel desu

>> No.12176754

>>12174941
>reading for plot
yikes!

>> No.12177490

>>12174941
I am currently reading now page 150. I want to punch myself in the dick every time he goes on and on about mesas, aloes, pueblas, and the sun.

I unironically find nearly everything the judge says to be engrossing and it's what keeps me going.

>> No.12177536

>>12177490
Puebla is a Mexican state, m8.

>> No.12177550

>>12174941
If you're not enjoying the book then you should not read it. It's about the journey not the end. I don't understand how a book can be worth it for the ending.

>> No.12177593

>>12177550
Also, I want to add that a lot of the literary intelligentsia in their 60's felt the book's violence was too much. Many people in their early twenties that grew up seeing gore threads on 4chan are largely desensitized to violence. So much so that I couldn't understand how someone could be so appalled by the gore in the book that they had to put it down.

>> No.12177609
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The first 400 pages were great. The minimalist descriptions of him having a mental breakdown due to the release of the novel was amazing to read. Around page 450 the essay on Hitler starts. Except the issue is that only around 50 pages are on Hitler. The other 600 pages just fucking jump around like crazy from Paul Celan to Borges. It's all so disorienting. He'll talk about one poem or subject for a page and then jump to something else mid-sentence.
He originally planned on making the last novel about how his marriage was falling apart, but his po-dunk Norwegian publisher said that was unreadable, there was nothing on the page. So he went back and rewrote it, but it was rejected over and over again. I feel like he just fucking gave up and decided to make it all philosophical just to placate his publishers.
He should have just left the original draft, because this is a terrible way to end the series. I can see why FSG didn't publish this book while they published literally every other book in the series.

>> No.12177613

>>12174790
>>reddit

>> No.12178303

Count of Monte Cristo.

It was cool, but I got bored of it after the break out. I didn't enjoy reading it and there were other things I was interested in.

>> No.12178325

>>12174829
Is it not funny? People have told me to read it.

>> No.12178347

>>12174790

I listened to a lecture from an ivy league literature professor about this book. All she did was spot the references. She didn't speak a single word about why these stories were relevant to the one being told.

Can someone point me towards some good literary analysis? Of any novel. Someone that has something interesting to say. Typing "literary analysis" into youtube gives you ceiling-to-floor synopses.

>> No.12179232

>>12177490
the junipers though

>> No.12179262

>>12177536
It’s been awhile since I’ve read it but I’m pretty sure the story doesn’t go as far south as Puebla. I think anon meant pueblo, but fuck if I know for McCarthy’s not shy of using archaic meaning of words instead of a word’s current common meaning.

>> No.12179409

>>12177593
Maybe that's why I found the book so shocking, I was never really into gore threads and always tried to avoid them and how McCarthy writes violence is incredibly vivid.

>> No.12179421
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12179421

seems like the entire book is condensed into the intro. didn't read past the first few pages of ch1; too boring.

>> No.12179958

>>12178325
I didn't find it funny, though it's trying very hard to be.

>> No.12180036

>>12174829
this, i quit about halfway through. there were parts i enjoyed but it was just such a slog and not very funny.

>> No.12180046

>>12174941
You're a pleb. What do you think of Moby Dick?