# Books you've thrown across the room in rage (open spoilers likely)

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**Post date:** [December 12, 2017, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-youve-thrown-across-the-room-in-rage-open-spoilers-likely/365799/161 "2017-12-12T01:13:29Z")

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> [@Paintcharge](#):
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> Palace walk by Naghib Mahfouz. First book I didn’t finish since Moby Dick. It was just mind bogglingly boring.
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> I still maintain that no one has really read Moby Dick.
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> Gravity’s Rainbow is an impenetrable pile of poo
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> And I enjoyed Infinite Jest.

Moby Dick is an amazing book, I have it on my Kindle and dip into it regularly.

I assume that I would not appreciate it as much if I were forced to read it in high school.

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