Sense and Sensibility
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Books I Have Started And Have Not Finished And Why
Jack
Jan 06, 2015 08:33AM
The ultimate list of shame.
An ongoing project.
- Jonathan Franzen: The Corrections: I was loving it through 150 pages. I have no idea why I stopped.
- Jose Saramago: Blindness: Just thought it was kinda meh.
- Lazlo Krasznahorkai: Satantango: The prose is very, very dense. And the plot is very, very slow-moving. It's a book I respect and will likely try again someday.
- Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility: I must've started something else... Cuz I love Pride and Prejudice!
- Herman Melville: Typee: I'm such an asshole.
- A.S. Byatt: Possession: Again, no idea here. I thought the first half was thrilling. Her impersonations of the Romantic poets are spot on, too.
- Richard Powers: The Gold Bug Variations: I dunno. I think I had a problem with one of the main characters being a librarian. It seemed kinda... Dated? Lame.
- Charles Dickens: Bleak House: Just didn't have the stomach for it, a couple years ago. I'm training though and I'll be back someday.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Idiot: How can a man read the Bros K, and love it, and then read Notes from Underground, and love it, and then read Crime and Punishment, and love it, and then not quite get hooked by this, his fourth major novel? The mind boggles.
- Robert Bolano: 2666: God, it's about college professors. I HATE books about college professors.
- Philip Roth: Nah, just kidding. I always get hooked by old Rothy. With his, you know, college professors.
- William Faulkner: As I Lay Dying (the second time): I thought it was my favorite book. I tried reading it again. It felt kind of mechanical... More a literary exercise than a sensitive character study. I might be wrong, here.
- James Joyce: Ulysses: I AM WEAK!
- Robert Graves: I, Claudius: Read the first twenty-five pages. Didn't seem relevant. Yes, I know, I'm an idiot.
- Montaigne: Complete Essays: I need to get a "Best Of," first, so I don't have to read a million pages about the antics of dumb French kings I ain't ever heard of.
- David Markson: Wittgenstein's Mistress: IT SUCKS (see my review).
An ongoing project.
- Jonathan Franzen: The Corrections: I was loving it through 150 pages. I have no idea why I stopped.
- Jose Saramago: Blindness: Just thought it was kinda meh.
- Lazlo Krasznahorkai: Satantango: The prose is very, very dense. And the plot is very, very slow-moving. It's a book I respect and will likely try again someday.
- Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility: I must've started something else... Cuz I love Pride and Prejudice!
- Herman Melville: Typee: I'm such an asshole.
- A.S. Byatt: Possession: Again, no idea here. I thought the first half was thrilling. Her impersonations of the Romantic poets are spot on, too.
- Richard Powers: The Gold Bug Variations: I dunno. I think I had a problem with one of the main characters being a librarian. It seemed kinda... Dated? Lame.
- Charles Dickens: Bleak House: Just didn't have the stomach for it, a couple years ago. I'm training though and I'll be back someday.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Idiot: How can a man read the Bros K, and love it, and then read Notes from Underground, and love it, and then read Crime and Punishment, and love it, and then not quite get hooked by this, his fourth major novel? The mind boggles.
- Robert Bolano: 2666: God, it's about college professors. I HATE books about college professors.
- Philip Roth: Nah, just kidding. I always get hooked by old Rothy. With his, you know, college professors.
- William Faulkner: As I Lay Dying (the second time): I thought it was my favorite book. I tried reading it again. It felt kind of mechanical... More a literary exercise than a sensitive character study. I might be wrong, here.
- James Joyce: Ulysses: I AM WEAK!
- Robert Graves: I, Claudius: Read the first twenty-five pages. Didn't seem relevant. Yes, I know, I'm an idiot.
- Montaigne: Complete Essays: I need to get a "Best Of," first, so I don't have to read a million pages about the antics of dumb French kings I ain't ever heard of.
- David Markson: Wittgenstein's Mistress: IT SUCKS (see my review).
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Curious about a couple of things:
1. Why post this under "Sense and Sensibility" book discussions?
2. Why post it twice?
1. Why post this under "Sense and Sensibility" book discussions?
2. Why post it twice?
Herman Mehlville: Mobey Dick. I just couldn't make myself care enough to keep reading.
Anna Karenina, although I've watched the movie thousands of times.
- Most recent one was The DUFF, too shallow to even be worth of explaining why.
- The one that I also remember and am quite ashamed of was Jane Eyre, around two months ago. I just couldn't stand Rochester, his patronizing, know-it-all personality and everything, so I stopped reading altogether in the middle of the second (I think) of his big conversations with Jane. It was either that or throwing the book out the window or damaging it in another way. I hate such people in real life, the most recent movie adaptation was great, but I couldn't make myself continue reading. The fast that the last book I had read before Jane Eyre was Pride and Prejudice didn't do Rochester a favor, as I could compare him to Mr.Darcy, one of my favorite characters ever.
- I hope this list of mine won't significantly expand in the future, and that Sense and Sensibility will be a good one to read :)
- The one that I also remember and am quite ashamed of was Jane Eyre, around two months ago. I just couldn't stand Rochester, his patronizing, know-it-all personality and everything, so I stopped reading altogether in the middle of the second (I think) of his big conversations with Jane. It was either that or throwing the book out the window or damaging it in another way. I hate such people in real life, the most recent movie adaptation was great, but I couldn't make myself continue reading. The fast that the last book I had read before Jane Eyre was Pride and Prejudice didn't do Rochester a favor, as I could compare him to Mr.Darcy, one of my favorite characters ever.
- I hope this list of mine won't significantly expand in the future, and that Sense and Sensibility will be a good one to read :)
1) Fools Die by Mario Puzo. I read more than 50 pages but it couldn't hold my interest.
2) Mein Kampf - Tried very hard to read but jut boring boring boring.
2) Mein Kampf - Tried very hard to read but jut boring boring boring.
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