post books that filtered you on the first few pages, don't be shy. everyone's a bit moronic in some ways.
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post books that filtered you on the first few pages, don't be shy. everyone's a bit retarded in some ways.
the plot makes more sense in greek
It's Greek to me!
Graecum est, non legitur
filtered me in 2019, been meaning to try it again for a while but been procrastinating it with other books
It didn't filter you, it's just poorly written. It has heart and soul and there's some funny sequences but overall it's a very poorly told story. The writing is autistic, clunky and atrocious to the point where I wonder if the whole novel is supposed to
be a from-the-hip intentionally shitty skaz.
Cormac McCarthy. I can't understand the way he writes. I stop and read every single sentence 10 times imagining every possible place that could have a comma. I can't understand his sentences without commas, and I don't know which one of my imaginations is the one the author intended, and they all have different meanings.
>t. ESL
Bible
Ada, or Ardor
Nabokov's one of my favorites but I just can't see the big picture with this one. Apparently there's a theory the narrator is nuts and making the whole thing up so I want to give it another try with that in mind along with adaonline and see if that helps
republic. it took me a little while to be able to filter out words that i didn't recognize and keep trudging forwards
Aristotle's Organon
Read all of Plato by that point and most of Aristotle, but that shit did me in.
Hop on Pop. Why must they hop on him?
The original "frick you, dad!!!"
I remember finding Hitchhiker's Guide difficult to read as a kid. Don't think I made it past the first few chapters.
David Foster Wallace
Infinite Jest.
Didn't even like the setting.
It’s okay. There is a reason you don’t like Homer. Ready to hear it? You’re a moron. That is why.
I joined a discord server and everything was already over. Greeting message: how are the first few bites?
>The Illiad
I liked it. I have E. V. Rieu's translation, and it wasn't a particularly challenging read. Or perhaps I got filtered so hard I'm not even aware.
Dosto's Notes from the Underground. I can't relate to what he's saying. C&P, TBK are more my speed.
One of very few novel's I've chucked. Usually I'm a bloodyminded bastard who finishes everything. But life's too short to read Dostoevsky.
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ARRANGES that made you laugh
Wouldn't go as far as 'filtered', but I often found myself having to look up Latin words and phrases a lot with M.R. James (one of his stories has an incorrect Latin translation as a plot point but you'd fail to understand a mistake had been made as the reader unless you spoke Latin better than the protagonist yourself).
Perhaps understandable since he was provost at Cambridge he strikes as a very educated man- and I suppose he assumed the same would be true of readers present and future.
Quis est iste, qui venit.
Moby Dick filtered me when I tried to read it in high school.
i read moby dick in 4th grade and it was ez