I heard a lot of people liked Watership Down, so I got it digitally. I tried to like it, I really did, but I just couldn’t… I don’t know, care? It just started feeling like a labor to read it so I stopped about 20% of the way in.
Idk maybe one day I’ll give it another try.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
It wasn’t terrible by any means. But I kept being told how-fast paced and gripping it was.
The fastest the pace went was the main character ducking behind a barrier in a very brief firefight.
I’m not one of those action junkies, but I was kind of expecting more.
Ready Player One. It has a lot of really problematic stuff in it, the entire plot was “This kid remembers the 80s so he’s the chosen one,” and countless people you used to respect love it
Probably Dune. Tried to read it severl times, and each time it’s a boring slog with characters that are hard to relate to. Maybe I just like personal journey stories over big political ones
Another book that I’ve had trouble reading through is Neuromancer. I get that it’s cyberpunk and all that, but it just doesn’t really have a grip on me
The Old Man and the Sea. A junior high teacher assigned it as an individual project, and I was bored out of my mind. After one of my own university students recommended it a few months ago, I tried it again. Forty years has not improved my opinion of it.
Come to think of it, even teaching an intro lit & philosophy course, I still think any book that’s only in print because it’s on a reading list is probably garbage.
I do beg to differ. I went through a period when reading “reading list” books was about all I wanted to do.
Pearl Buck “The Good Earth” Zora Neale Hurston “Their Eyes Were Watching God”
Just two faves if you want to try them out.
I should’ve noted that YMMV. :)
Thanks for the recommendations. When there’s time to read for fun, I’ll try to check them out.