Books you wanted to like

[digs]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

I had heard much and many great things about Infinite Jest and A Confederacy of Dunces, but neither appealed to me at all. I stopped reading about a quarter of the way

I’m coming up on a quarter of the way into A Confederacy of Dunces, mostly because I got tired of smart literate friends being astounded that I hadn’t read it.

So far, it’s amusing, but I don’t see what the big deal is… I’ll hang in there a while more, though.

(Anyone here who thinks that it’ll get better? Or who thinks that if it hasn’t grabbed me by now it never will? )

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I felt the same about Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and put it aside for a decade. Finished high school, went through college and major changes to my world-view, then my first job…
Found it in a box of forgotten books, opened it to my old bookmark, annnnd… FOUR PAGES after I’d given up, the identity of Phaedrus is revealed, which meant it made much more sense, and I devoured the rest, and eventually became a teacher.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@digs

I felt the same about Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and put it aside for a decade. Finished high school, went through college and major changes to my world-view, then my first job…
Found it in a box of forgotten books, opened it to my old bookmark, annnnd… FOUR PAGES after I’d given up, the identity of Phaedrus is revealed, which meant it made much more sense, and I devoured the rest, and eventually became a teacher.

Yeah, I devoured Zen in college, read it two or three times. But I was a lot easier to convince I should read the whole book back a half-century ago.