Books you tried to finish but just can't


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Someone at Free Minds said that when they went back and tried to read "The Catcher in the Rye" they found it utterly uninteresting. They found Holden Caulfield to be self centered brat.

Moby Dick should be read after you eliminate many of the chapters devoted to the gory details of whaling.

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I've confirmed The Ambassadors as unreadable. I should also add Infinite Jest to the list: I've only read a few paragraphs of it, and already it has made my eyes glaz over twice. I'm not enduring 1000+ pages of this rubbish.

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Critique of Pure Reason - I. Kant Which is to say I Kant finish it.

Ba'al Chatzaf

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Critique of Pure Reason - I. Kant Which is to say I Kant finish it.

Ba'al Chatzaf

Ba'al; Excellent word play.

I must report that I gave up on the latest Stephen King novel "Under the Dome.

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