My current reading has inspired me this question. I am at the 3/4th of The Castle from Kafka and it has been a real struggle. The beginning has been great, a peculiar and gripping atmosphere until it evolved in a lot of discussions on the means to access the castle. I know it's an unfinished book. I know that it should demonstrate the absurdity of administration, which honestly is not exciting in itself and which we all already know, but I really force myself.
I sincerely tried to like it, I have read critics about it trying to get the point, but I just don't get it. I've read that the writing is voluntarily pointless to symbolize the absurdity of administration, but, we get it already ! I know it's absurd! Why inflicting more suffering on the reader to prove a point already made?!
Anyway, end of rant. Did you have a similar expérience ? If yes, what book and why were you disappointed ?
by rifain
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Dune. Got half way through it and just found it *boring*
I feel like The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the worst books I’ve ever read. I hate that I read the entire thing.
Blood Meridian. Tried it four times now and never get more than a third of the way in. Just strikes me as a try-hard edgelord trying to emulate Herman Melville but without his berserk and witty panache.
I still don’t understand the hype around Doctor Zhivago. I don’t know what Pasternak is supposedly doing that is so god-tier. It’s a short doomed romance where not much happens with a few unusual stylistic choices.