We all have at least one: the title(s) that you still haven’t finished weeks, months, even years after you started reading it, but nevertheless you are determined to finish… someday.
Let’s commiserate. What’s on your stuck book list?
We all have at least one: the title(s) that you still haven’t finished weeks, months, even years after you started reading it, but nevertheless you are determined to finish… someday.
Let’s commiserate. What’s on your stuck book list?
This is how I generally read books, so there are dozens.
If you only count books I’m more than a couple chapters into, then in descending order of how long they’ve been on the list:
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Beelzebub’s Tales to his Grandson
Finnegan’s Wake
Gravity’s Rainbow
House of Leaves
They’re all great books, but they require a bit more dedicated reading time than I generally have.
Gravity’s Rainbow was a tough read. Took me about two months to complete it, and that’s with the help of the companion wiki and a few chapter summaries whenever I didn’t understand a single sentence no matter how hard I tried.
House of leaves for me too 😅 got 80% and loved it, then got busy again… now I’m intimidated to pick it back up
I got to chapter IX, flipped through it to estimate how long it would take to read it properly, and dutifully put the bookmark in it.
This is one of my favs! It’s worth finishing.
Also, if you like House of Leaves, check out Bats of the Republic by Zachary Thomas Dodson. It’s also Egrodic.