but never read?
Brendan off Coach Trip’s autobiography
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Ulysses by James Joyce.
It would be Gödel, Escher, Bach but I made it through that after a few years.
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Does downloading a free version of Ulysses
count?
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‘House of Leaves’ by Mark Z. Danielewski. Someone will be along to tell me that I’m missing out.
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It’s hardly pretentious tbf, but I never got past the first 50 pages of Gravity’s Rainbow
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I did a philosophy degree so…
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Discounting uni textbooks, probably Infinite Jest. Tried three times to get through it, never got further than about 10% of the way through.
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Manches taking severe psychic damage from this thread.
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Les Misérables
Decided at uni that I would look very sophisticated if I read some Russian literature.
Got 30 pages into The Master and Margarita before giving up.
With Unpretentious concept albums yesterday, it must be #PretentiousWeek at DiS
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I’ve definitely confessed to this before but as a teenager I had a vintage copy of On The Road which I’d performatively read in the vicinity of vaguely bookish looking girls. Lost it after writing my phone number on the front page and giving it to someone on the train. They never called.
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Otherwise it’s Gravity’s Rainbow.
James & The Giant Peach
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That’s 50 more pages than I’ve managed. It just sits there on the shelf, looking at me with its ridiculous page count and promptly being shunned for another Chris Brookmyer thriller
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This is so good, you were living such an indie film lead dream in that moment
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The Illiad
Ditto, “oh i’ve got to turn the book upside down” i’m not 12 mate, bin!
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Isn’t every week PretentiousWeek at DiS? 
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