/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14580557]

Books you didn't finish and why.
>Infinite Jest
It's a a fucking slog to read and after around 200 pages I still didn't give a single fuck about any of the characters or the story, which doesn't feel any need to evolve further beyond drugs and tennis and tennis and drugs.

[Anonymous No.14580588]

>V.

It was good, the passages about Benny getting boners now and doing autistic shit, the jewish girls who got nose surgery with a doctor whose name I don't remember, and the whole sick crew that I didn't give a fuck about, etc.
I didn't finish it, for it was too long desu, I had the epub so that's my excsue.

[Anonymous No.14581424]

>>14580588
it's hardly 400 pages long lmao

>>14580557
it gets good near page 300, good job, brainlet

[Anonymous No.14581662]

>>14580557

I agree that IJ is extremely bloated and often boring, but there are some sublime moments.

I have never finished a single book written in the 19th century by an Angloid, even the ones I had to 'study'. Brontë, Austen and Co. are the definition of dry.

[Anonymous No.14581891]

Ulysses made me feel stupid enough I stopped reading for a while. I've told myself I'd give it a second try whenever I read Shakespeare (one too many Willy references, Joyce) but that's a long shot.

[Anonymous No.14582112]

>>14581891
I wanted to try this book, is the Shakespeare stuff that excessive?

[Anonymous No.14582125]

Ethan Frome was a joyless slog.
Same with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. I had to read that for school, and it felt like every other page she went into too much detail about getting fondled by her stepfather. I used Sparknotes for the rest of it, got an A on the paper.

[Anonymous No.14582142]

>>14581891
>>14582112
Why would you read Ulysses before Shakespeare?

[Anonymous No.14582152]

>>14581424
>300 pages before it gets good
so if I read it I should skip the first third

[Anonymous No.14582154]

>>14582142
because there's a lot of it and i don't like plays.

[Anonymous No.14582171]

>>14582142
because you're in high school and on /lit/

[Anonymous No.14582172]

>>14582154
If your taste is this horrificly bad I don't know what on Earth made you think you were prepared for Joyce.

[Anonymous No.14582351]

>>14582154
Theres nothing you should know...it really depends if ur into the style of writing and can go along with the flow . The words in the first two chapters may seem daunting, but it changes. Knowledge of the materials it references, the odyssey, Shakespeare, the bible,... ultimately it's also possible the book may spark interest in these sources.

I love the book, but Tb straight, you'll probably put it away frustrated after a few pages, since you're 12

[Anonymous No.14582457]

>>14580557
I just got filtered by Blindsight. I could tell by the first chapter it wasn't the kind of book I wanted to read. It immediately starts referencing a bunch of lore as if you're already supposed to understand it when in fact it hasn't been explained at all. Also, the main character is an emotionless zombie with half his brain removed. Fuck that noise.

[Anonymous No.14582506]

>>14580557
I put the Snopes Trilogy by Faulkner down around page 200, it was awful

I wish I had put infinite jest down, what a waste of time. Glad that faggot killed himself

[Anonymous No.14582515]

>Lolita
The couch scene has made me close the book entirely, never looking back. The prose is good but I cannot imagine how this novel could further me at all.