So i finally dropped pic related after slogging through 500 pages

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2016-02-03 19:07:44 Post No. 7656861
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Anonymous 2016-02-03 19:07:44 Post No. 7656861 [Report]

So i finally dropped pic related after slogging through 500 pages of needless elucidation and overwrought speech (to which i agree with Nabokov's criticism he writes speech like a failed playwright).

I guess itll join the ranks of Verne's From Earth to the Moon and Palhunuhu's Snuff as books I've not finished. ~~Though the age and covers are worth keeping them for anyway~~

So /lit/ what books have you given up on.

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Anonymous 2016-02-03 19:18:19 Post No.7656888
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Anonymous 2016-02-03 19:18:19 Post No.7656888 [Report]

>>7656861
If you aren't in the mood for Dostoevsky it doesn't work.
Gave up on V. long ago. Couldn't interest me for shit. Haven't bothered with Pynchon since.

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Anonymous 2016-02-03 19:20:44 Post No.7656898
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Anonymous 2016-02-03 19:20:44 Post No.7656898 [Report]

Gave up on Ulysses.

Picked it back up two years later and now it's my favourite book of all time.

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OP 2016-02-03 19:27:34 Post No.7656915
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OP 2016-02-03 19:27:34 Post No.7656915 [Report]

>>7656888
I dont remember having any problems with Notes or The Double to my memory, nor with Russian stories in general. But i guess youre right. I probably wont bother with Tolstoy if its the same drama.

>>7656898
Took me two months but did it a year or so ago. Loved it.

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Anonymous 2016-02-03 19:40:34 Post No.7656951
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Anonymous 2016-02-03 19:40:34 Post No.7656951 [Report]

Anything I've ever tried to read by Stephen King.
I gave it a fair shot, it really is all that bland.

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Anonymous 2016-02-03 20:28:06 Post No.7657127
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Anonymous 2016-02-03 20:28:06 Post No.7657127 [Report]

>>7656861

I tried reading Ulysses when I was 15 and heard about it from a teacher in school. Made it 1.5 chapters and stopped. Reread most of it when I was 19. Liked it a lot more. I'm going to reread it later this year now that I'm older and much better read.