We all have at least one: the title(s) that you still haven’t finished weeks, months, even years after you started reading it, but nevertheless you are determined to finish… someday.

Let’s commiserate. What’s on your stuck book list?

  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    21 days ago

    This is how I generally read books, so there are dozens.

    If you only count books I’m more than a couple chapters into, then in descending order of how long they’ve been on the list:

    Gödel, Escher, Bach

    Beelzebub’s Tales to his Grandson

    Finnegan’s Wake

    Gravity’s Rainbow

    House of Leaves

    They’re all great books, but they require a bit more dedicated reading time than I generally have.

      • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        20 days ago

        I got to chapter IX, flipped through it to estimate how long it would take to read it properly, and dutifully put the bookmark in it.

      • WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world
        3·
        21 days ago

        This is one of my favs! It’s worth finishing.

        Also, if you like House of Leaves, check out Bats of the Republic by Zachary Thomas Dodson. It’s also Egrodic.

      • Eq0@literature.cafe
        1·
        10 days ago

        I think I’m almost 50% in, but it has been sitting somewhere for the last months. It is really intimidating!

    • Tatar_Nobility@lemmy.ml
      2·
      20 days ago

      Gravity’s Rainbow was a tough read. Took me about two months to complete it, and that’s with the help of the companion wiki and a few chapter summaries whenever I didn’t understand a single sentence no matter how hard I tried.

    • Eq0@literature.cafe
      1·
      10 days ago

      Gödel, Escher, Bach was a hard read, it took me until i think half way before it started to “roll”, and the mathematical logic chapter was rough. Overall, worth reading in its entirety. In particular its section on AI and the ideas they had at the time was very interesting, even if by now they are significantly out of date.

      Some I’m not a music fan, for me personally the connection to music didn’t make the book any easier, but actually taught me some cool things about music I had never thought about.