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Carlos Fuentes' Terra Nostra. My humble intellect could just not wrap myself around it, but what little I did comprehend led me to believe it was a great novel.
D,H, Lawrence's Women in Love.
James Joyce's Ulysses. Have tried several times and decided it is not my fate to finish it.
Julio Cortezar's Hopscotch. Made it may halfway through, and that was during what I consider my intellectual prime. Loved what I did manage to read - maybe half of it.
Cervantes' Don Quixote. IIRC I got through most of Part 1 but was unable to to deal with Part 2 for some reason.
I did get through Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, to give some perspective here
Oh ... as an afterthought, Arthur C. Clark's The Deep Range. Have read many of his novels and short stories. This one just ... I dont know ... did not click
The only one that comes to mind that I didn't just stop reading once I figured I didn't like it was Crime and PUnishment, but that's because I was reading it for a college class at the same time both of my grandparents (whom I was very close to) were going through open heart surgery. I think I read about two-thirds before I gave up. I plan to read it again someday (maybe - it's been over 20 years since my first attempt so who knows if that second attempt will really ever happen).
Couldn't get past the first few chapters of the first book. Never bothered with the others.
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