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What's on your "stuck book" list? (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by fireweed@lemmy.world to c/books@lemmy.world
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We all have at least one: the title(s) that you still haven't finished weeks, months, even years after you started reading it, but nevertheless you are determined to finish... someday.

Let's commiserate. What's on your stuck book list?

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The Odyssey. Got to half way through book 4 and just didn't continue it.

[–] Eq0@literature.cafe 2 points 5 months ago

The old sagas are difficult… time really separated is from the set up they were meant for, making them very hard to relate to. I tried the Illiad and also abandoned a little way into it