Books that you've not read lately

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what books have you not read lately?

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Started What We Talk About When We Talk About Love but I couldnā€™t be arsed with it, not in the right mind-frame for it so Iā€™ll go back to it at some other point.

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one of my favourites

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currently reading paul austerā€™s ā€œthe brooklyn folliesā€ buuuuuut i dunno about it/him tbh

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I tried the new york trilogy and couldnā€™t be doing with it at all.

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That one.

and that other one.

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Was one of the less enjoyable of his iirc. Loved New York Trilogy and Leviathan though

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i finished it but was a bit underwhelmed by it t.b.h. thought iā€™d give him one more crack though.

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Have you tried the graphic novel of City of Glass? Works really well in this format imo.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/City-Glass-Graphic-Novel-Trilogy/dp/0312423608

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Every single book I got for Christmasā€¦ Also recent purchases of a A Very Short Introduction : Dreams, A Very Short Introduction : Design and A Very Short Introduction : Science Fiction all remain untouched.

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Got 100 or so pages into Illuminatus! then gave up and moved to Roald Dahl.

Weird might as well be fun too.

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ā€˜The Order Of The Deathā€™s Head: The Story Of Hitlerā€™s SSā€™. Way too grim. Gave up a hundred or so pages in,

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I continue to fail to read Infinite Jest

Reckon I got to page 40 last month before sacking it

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I only got through ā€˜Infinite Jestā€™ when I lost my glasses on a holiday and had to sit in my room and read it that rather than walk anywhere or do anything. So you could do that zxcvbnn.

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Got ā€˜On The Roadā€™ lying about a quarter read. Started it last year then sacked it off to read something else, then tried again this year whilst waiting on something else to arrive.

Just canā€™t be arsed with it at all :pensive:

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I couldnā€™t get much out of On the Road either - too rambling.

How far has anybody made it through Ulysses? I think I managed about 12 pages before I realised I hadnā€™t taken more than about five words.

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You need a study guide or something to get the most out of it - bit of a pain but worthwhile as once you get a grip on what heā€™s doing with the different sections itā€™s brilliant and youā€™ll understand the hype.

Basically you want something that expands on this chapter schema Joyce sent to his mate to help him read it

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Wow, thanks. Thing is, I do really like the Odyssey so having something which helps me relate it to that (which this looks like) will be really useful.

Cheers!

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Ok, that confirms that I am definitely not up to reading the Odyssey.