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I read all of Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. After that, I skimmed all of Austen's other books, since every book is basically the same story: A girl's quest for marriage. Jane Austen never wrote a story that wouldn't have been greatly improved by a pirate attack or a few horse chases.
I've never made it through an Ayn Rand book. Life is too short for such torture.
I gave up on A.S. Byatt's Possession. I kept falling asleep. It was that thrilling.
I read Thus Spake Zarathustra in college. I did finish it but I have to admit that the only reason I read it was because it was considered cool to do so. Don't tell anyone. LOL
One that I could never get through was Albert Speer's Inside the Third Reich. It's not a bad book. I just wasn't willing to spend the time reading it.
I always thought it would be so cool to read, and so cool to be one of the people who could read and understand it. But every time I try, I remember that you probably have to be on acid and have schizophrenia in order to read it.
I've also learned that reading ABOUT Finnegan's Wake is much more interesting that actually reading Finnegan's Wake. I think Carl Jung said Joyce probably had schizophrenia, just by reading his work.
His novellas (the ones I've read) I don't have a problem with, and I've read The Shining and Christine from cover to cover, but other than that, I've started quite a few of his books and just gave up, most notably Cujo, It, Firestarter, Salem's Lot and Dreamcatcher.
I read all of Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. After that, I skimmed all of Austen's other books, since every book is basically the same story: A girl's quest for marriage. Jane Austen never wrote a story that wouldn't have been greatly improved by a pirate attack or a few horse chases.
I've never made it through an Ayn Rand book. Life is too short for such torture.
I gave up on A.S. Byatt's Possession. I kept falling asleep. It was that thrilling.
Curious that your problem seems to be with women authors, especially with romance.
For me, I had to try multiple times to make it through Gone With the Wind and some Dickens, but very glad I did. I've been stymied by Pynchon, but still intend to take another whack at it.
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