Gonna post some bricks here :word:

I’ve finished Gravity’s Rainbow.

There’s nothing I can’t do.

started hawkings last book and haven’t picked it up in 2 years

got redundant pretty fast

All of them.

crime and punishment. want to read it but at the same time I find the first pages a bit boring

Hustle harder hustle smarter audio book by 50 cent

He reads it himself lol.

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

I've been 48% into the book since 2019

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Just got busy and never picked it up again

The spy who came in from the Cold by John Le Carré

Might end up finishing (i'm at 50%) but s*** is currently boring my socks off, even though it's short.

wym? I'm curious

same with me for beloved

what do you think of it so far?

I was about a third into it and I actually liked what I read, but like you, I just got busy with other stuff and never got back into it.

Jumbie bird by Ismith Khan

Siddartha by Herman Hesse

Jonathan Livingstone Seagull by 70's author whose name I forgot

All boring as f***, no regrets

Other than that,

The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
Like 3 different Marukami novels
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

He always tellin about hustlin, how he was able to survive his hood despite sellin d****... all the substance vanished in the samey a***ysis quickly

this was so melodramatic at times, couldn't really get it after 200 pages

damn y'all giving up on some classics. all good tho and I think it's better to admit a book isn't for you than forcing yourself to continue because others rave about it

but I almost gave up on Beloved and am glad I stuck with it because the second half was much better. keep at it if you remember enough @Beach_kneega @venus

been trying to get better at giving up books that don't grab me much. didn't finish:

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
The Night Watchman by Louise Edrich
The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt (hated this one)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
The Electric Kool Aid Test by Tom Wolfe
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (would like to revisit this one)

I'm waiting my retirement to take this from the bookshelf. It will be the first thing I do, I promised myself.

I'm sorry guys, but what I wrote rhymed and I'm reading in different rappers voice in my head and it's helluva bar

Brothers Karamazov, it’s a good book and a great look into late 19th century Russian life, but incredibly dense. Hard to read for more than 30 minutes a time

Russian literature is very hard because they use 3 names for each person. But a good translation goes a long way. And an audiobook makes it even more palatable. I would recommend Master and Margarita (the Michael kerpelson translation) if you are still interested in a Russian masterpiece but Dostoevsky is not doing it for you.

I need to give it another chance. This book is screaming my read the same way Stoner did after I quitted it.

Do it

Whole book worth it for the grand inquisitor chapter alone

Its a modernist book but i still think it is relevant to our times due to how dude can go into the psyche of a person and kinda magnify emotions. Which is why it can be melodramatic.

Normal People by Sally Rooney
Perfume by Patrick Süskind

The reason I remember them though is because I think about giving them another try sometimes.