me too, still got it on my kindle and hope to go back to it but was really boring
Was expecting to really like it. It's just not written very well. There would be more than one male character in a scene and it just keeps saying he said, he said, he said.... WHO SAID?
War & Peace..........no joking. I bought it in a 2nd hand shop years ago but never got past the first few pages.
Stick with it mate, get 40 pages in and, honestly, no word of aa lie, it's a page turner, but you do have to get in a little way.
For me, in my desperately pretentious youth, "Finnegans Wake" First page took me about an hour, and that was it. Tried again a few years later, exactly the same. It isn't really a book, it's the worlds longest predictive text message.
Catch 22 again, keep intending to pick it up but it's just hard to get in to. The book of Dave is another one i tried to get into a few times, but just couldn't manage it. The interpreation of dreams and the origin of species are books i have never quite finisheed either. I just read five people you meet in heaven - brilliant book!
There was also quite a famous book whose name escapes me at present. The author was American but the writing style was very stacatto with very short sentences.
There was also quite a famous book whose name escapes me at present. The author was American but the writing style was very stacatto with very short sentences.
There was also quite a famous book whose name escapes me at present. The author was American but the writing style was very stacatto with very short sentences.
There was also quite a famous book whose name escapes me at present. The author was American but the writing style was very stacatto with very short sentences.
Really bugging me now.
The Road?
That's by Jack Kerouac - but apparently not the one he's looking for.
There was also quite a famous book whose name escapes me at present. The author was American but the writing style was very stacatto with very short sentences.
Really bugging me now.
The Road?
That's by Jack Kerouac - but apparently not the one he's looking for.
I would have given up on it, probably the worst book I've ever read, but it was so bad that I kept reading out of fascination at what plot contrivance the author would invent next.
I struggled with Catch 22 as well....Catcher in the Rye was our book of choice in my English Lit class....hated it!!!
Actually reading Catch 22 at the moment, and got Catcher in the Rye next up. Am doing alright with it but I have got to be in the right mood.
I never actually finished Curbs' book, thought it was a bit too monotone and overly factual. Am usually pretty enthusiastic when it comes to non-fiction and autobiographies.
Bang on re Cloud Atlas. Trying it at the moment and am finding it a struggle.
Whatever you do, don't go see the film then. The only film I can remember when both my wife and I were checking the time, imploring it to to end.
My submission is Gomorrah, the book about the Neapolitan mafia. Just couldn't finish the relentless tales of appalling violence and corruption, knowing that it was all true and happening in a core EU country.
Just thought of another one - Stephen Donaldson's "Lord Fouls Bane" - the first of the Chronicals of Thomas Covenant, a friend absolutely raved over these, and it was the biggest pile of steaming horse manure I have ever come across.
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For me, in my desperately pretentious youth, "Finnegans Wake" First page took me about an hour, and that was it. Tried again a few years later, exactly the same. It isn't really a book, it's the worlds longest predictive text message.
Too short to bother with really.
Encouraging to hear about War and Peace - I started reading but only 20 pages in and gave up. I've just finished a book so I might give another go.
The author was American but the writing style was very stacatto with very short sentences.
Really bugging me now.
Jack Kerouac?
If Jazz is musical wanking, then this was the literary equivalent.
Really loved that book!
The Road is by Cormac McCarthy
I never actually finished Curbs' book, thought it was a bit too monotone and overly factual. Am usually pretty enthusiastic when it comes to non-fiction and autobiographies.
My submission is Gomorrah, the book about the Neapolitan mafia. Just couldn't finish the relentless tales of appalling violence and corruption, knowing that it was all true and happening in a core EU country.