The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner. I was looking forward to this novel set in 19th-century South Africa. Alas, I couldn't get more than a quarter through it. The nonstop religious/spiritual discussion, the flowery prose, and aspects of the plot–naive rubes taken advantage of by a con man, which is a type of story I hate–but wait, there's more–love unrequited, everybody is unhappy and half of them die (but very spiritually). It's a minor classic and I'm sure there's a lot to be found in it, but not by me.
Oh well. One more off the TBR pile.
by ImportantAlbatross