# Books that you have to stop reading
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-that-you-have-to-stop-reading/840924
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 27, 2019, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-that-you-have-to-stop-reading/840924 "2019-09-27T20:53:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2019, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-that-you-have-to-stop-reading/840924/41 "2019-10-12T19:18:20Z")
I’m not surprised that others have mentioned _Lord Foul’s Bane_. I stopped after the rape scene, because I just can’t empathize with a rapist, and have no interest in reading a book whose main character I can’t empathize with.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2019, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-that-you-have-to-stop-reading/840924/42 "2019-10-12T21:22:12Z")
Being curious, I attempted to read _Mein Kampf._ Got about 3-4 pages before wetting my pants laughing at how utterly bat-shit crazy it was.
Almost made me want to sell by BMW’s.
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### Author:  [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2019, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-that-you-have-to-stop-reading/840924/43 "2019-10-13T02:24:02Z")
A few off the top of the noggin -
_The Prophet_ - oh FFS I had to chew out Dad for recommending me that one, and he doesn’t have a philosophical/spiritual/astral-thingie bone in his uninspired, unmotivated body.
“_V_” - I guess you gotta have That Thing for ol’ Tommy.
Fortunately still here to say I (wisely) extricated myself from about halfway through the Killer Joke.
Knut Hamsun’s _Hunger_ - put it down several times - not for eventual unreadability - but just Debbie Downer’ed by the unrelenting state of the narrator living somewhat on the brink.
ETA: Dostoevsky’s _Notes From Underground_
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### Author:  [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2019, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-that-you-have-to-stop-reading/840924/44 "2019-10-13T04:16:03Z")
I’m in a book group!
Sorry, but all my friends have been, and no one ever asked me. So I’m excited, I finally feel like a grown up!
_(Okay, you’ll realize how awkward that is when I admit that I’m not a high school girl; I’m a rugby player in his late 60’s)_
But this month we’re reading multiple Toni Morrison novels. Oprah-Book-Clubby tragedies. I finished two that were full of horrible people, but stopped the third when the protagonist was the third (fourth?) person to be burned to death.
I was relieved to peek at a text from a friend during the discussion, asking me what the books were like… “Ugly people dying in ugly ways.”
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