Last book you gave up on. Threw in the towel. Said frick this. And why?
mine was Blindsight. Great ideas wrapped in utterly soulless writing. Characters were all dogshit. Lasted ~30 pages.
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The Martian. The movie was actually better for once.
The movie was shit and should have been half as long
Frick matt damon
That's intrinsically paternalistic
Naked Lunch.
I was expecting something more profound.
Instead I got a schizo shitpost.
Samegayging
Overrated. There was literally nothing for me to keep on reading.
Samegaygjng
200 pages into it RN. Its top comfy and I'm looking forward to many happy hours.
I have tried to read The Idiot about 20 times. Have read everything else by Dostoyevsky but this is just so boring.
Second this. I will never care about Russian aristocracy, no matter what Dostoevsky says.
how the frick do you get filtered by blindsight
its like the most accessible sci fi ever written
>accessible
Why would that be a quality? Every fricking nyt bestselling self-help trash is "accessible"
Its often recommended to sci-fi newbies because its a pleasure to read and has some interesting ideas
>Every fricking nyt bestselling self-help trash is "accessible"
You just want to be a hipster
Parts of Egans work definitely requires extra attention but Diaspora is a book I cherish dearly. I encourage you to give it another try.
Also it might help to pull up his website for more insight if you get filtered by the technical aspects.
Yeah its on my list. Will stop procrastinating and give it another try soon
What software did you use to make this webm, this looks extremely interesting. Is it one of those non-Euclidian geometry simulators?
Its an interactive simulation from Greg Egans' website explaining the alternative fundamental physics in his book Dichronauts.
https://www.gregegan.net/DICHRONAUTS/02/Interactive.html
Thank you
Do you need to enjoy every single book you read in order to not be filtered according to your pink jellybean brain?
Must be one of those greg egan novels, diaspora I think. His short stories were good but I couldn't just proceed on the novel eventually I dropped it. That is also when I started hating non normal pronouns
Hale-Bopp comet
just flew over my house
Being and nothingness, Sartre
filtered by the "beings"
>A Clockwork Orange
The Russian/wienerney bullshit fake language was excruciating and at least the first several chapters were just a gang of losers beating up random civilians. If it contains any value as literature, I wasn’t willing to suffer through it long enough to find out.
house of leaves
characters are all one dimensional and too 'perfect' in a sense, they come off unbelievable, but more importantly its just boring as hell
it started kinda good and there are some clever insights about some meta shit there, but the gimmicks wear thin fast and add very little
A rebours
I wasn’t enjoying life anymore, then came the rush again. So instead of reading about it I just followed example and started doing what I want.
I’ll pick the book up again.
The Bluest Eye.
Honestly, I rarely finish any fiction I start. I have to really like the book. I usually get about halfway through and then stop caring.
Savage Detectives. I hate the prose and was completely uninterested in the narrative. It's like he took a semi-interesting conceit and tried to make it as dull as possible
JR 500 pages in. I got the point and was not willing to slog through the shit to get to the gold anymore. Beautiful work but unsatisfying to actually read. I greatly appreciate it though.
I felt the same way at about that point, but I did slog through it. Around a hundred pages later and it became much easier to read and comprehend as well as funnier as JR's empire began to collapse. This isn't to say you should pick it back up, but I do think the back half is quicker than the front half.
Blackshirts and Reds. Parenti is just wrong, doesn't write as well as he can and is very light on sources
>mine was Blindsight. Great ideas wrapped in utterly soulless writing.
That's a literary device in the case of Blindsight, part of what makes it work. The protag is literally missing most of his soul and later goes on to be shocked into awareness of this fact, with the reader supposed to be shocked into awareness of the fact simultaneously.
Scifi in general is usually about great ideas and how boring characters interact with the consequences of those ideas. If you combine complex/abstract ideas with complex/abstract characters the result is usually complete gibberish.
Last Of The Mohicans, boring and the same shit happens every single chapter where they kill off a token character and kill some Frenchies while Hawkeye rambles on and on about the WHITE BLOOD flowing through his INDIAN VEINS
Star Wars The Princess and the Scoundrel. It wasn't the worst book I've ever read, but I got to the 60% mark and realized I wasn't enjoying myself at all. It was a boring slog.
I gave up on Don Quixote. It wasn't anything to do with the book itself, but the translation of it was antiquated, very literal. No quotation marks for dialogue, only starting a sentence, inserting a comma and "<character> said," and continuing the sentence, making dialogue awkward. Even when it did have quotation marks, it was an entire block at the beginning and end of every line for 50 or so lines, with no rhyme or reason, extending far beyond whenever one character ended his speech and another started, or whenever it switched to narration instead. Made it very painful to read.
Read the Edith Grossman one, that's what I read.
The Rise of Endymion
The first two books of the Hyperion Cantos were fantastic. Endymion was a bit weird but I went with it. Rise, on the other hand is pure garbage and I couldn't stomach it. Everything that wasn't the Pax (villains) was pure good hippy shit and Dan Simmons wouldn't stop retconning the older, better books with a cheeky wink (oh, the writer for them in universe is one of the previous main characters who was an unreliable narrator, don't you know!) so he could shoehorn in some moronic revelation that the higher dimension of the Void that Binds operates entirely on the principle that love is an actual law of physics somehow.
Godel, Escher, Bach. Some interesting ideas, but nothing more than a 400 something page manic mental pretzel slathered in pseudo intellectual cheese. Got halfway through
I liked the dialogs. But not the chapters.
The opposite for me. Dialogs just became boring after awhile, but I was admittedly annoyed by the chapters when they stopped having any clear direction and felt like "filler"
Moby Dick. I already knew the story from adaptations and reading the abridged version as a kid. Went to read the original. Found it tedious. While reading it I kept thinking about how I would be having more fun reading something else alongside being sad that the native was gonna die because I knew the story. Eventually at around half way I realized that I was only reading it because it's Moby Dick and put it down.
I don't know, I'm always "dropping" good books. I usually start reading them on my pc/kindle whatever and end up forgetting to get back to them. I read on 3 different computers, it is hard to keep everything synced. And I'm not particularly worried either.
I finished my second re-read of Blindsight this week, baseline. If you need me I'll be seeing both aspects of a Necker cube simultaneously.
TRIO, about classical composers Robert Schumann, Clara Wieck Schumann, and Johannes Brahms.
I'm a classical fan, but I gave up on it about 10% in. Too many incidental characters, and too slowly paced.
>Moby Dick
moronic rambling
>Blood Meridian
just dirty subhumans performing atrocities and being dirty subhumans page after page
i will say the prose in both was top notch and such a joy to read that it ALMOST was enough to make up for the things I hated about them
I had the same experience with Moby Dick. The first 300 pages may be the best novel I've ever read, but after the first whale encounter it turned into an ordeal. I skipped entire chapters of whaling manifesto just to return to the story.
I got memed into reading Snow Crash two months ago after finishing Neuromancer. What stings more than the hours wasted reading it, is the half hour of work pay that I spent buying it.
The Psychology of Time Travel. Serves me right for reading modern scifi I guess, but it was just terribly written. The main characters all were written with the same "voice" and the attempt at anachronistic storytelling came off hackneyed. I made it about 40% through and then realized I wasn't enjoying any of it and isn't care how it ended, and put it down.
Cancer Ward.
It's a great book but it's crushing my spirit and mind, and making me second-guess my body.
Dude In the first circle was amazing fricking love Solzhenitsyn influenced my right wing tradism and my hatred of materialist thinking. Your post tells me I need to read this shit. As soon as my mental health is out of the fricking gutter.
Infinite Jest
never read much outside of school and anons told me it was really good but its just a bunch of unrelated nonsense that goes on and on and on. I must have gone through 50 to 100 pages of that garbage before i djd realized it wasnt worth my time.
I did the same, dude please don’t base your opinion of lit on that book. There are so many great books for those of us who dont like that encyclopedic type bullshit, along with stream of consciousness stuff. Great if someone loves faulkner but its not for everyone.
Story of the Eye
Just perverted sex, gets boring after a bit like irl
Thats that one booktuber gays favorite book. He has pretty good taste and his analyzes are good but hes totally pretentious.
Troyat's biography of Tolstoy
It felt too novelistic
Crime and Punishment. I had to call it quits a third of the way in because it became it became intolerably dry (?) and incredibly tedious to read at that point.
Jazz.
Was bored. Didn't care about New York City qua evil soulless character that destroys the black community, nor did I care about a crazy lady with a cheating husband. Was insipid and written for an audience that I obviously am not. Just didn't care.
It was well written, but I read over half way through (has about 400 pages) and learnt almost absolutely nothing from it. I don't think it's a 'pseudoscience' it's more so just a compendium of small psychological tricks you can use on yourself or with others, but I basically got nothing out of it, so I chucked it.
Died of boredom lul