I give up on most of the books that I start. Sometimes, I can not figure them out - even after restarting several times. Sometimes, they are boring. Often, I get half way through a book I'm reading for fun, and figure out that I have too much to do, so it goes in the half-finished pile until I need to clean up, then it ends up on my shelves.
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Originally Posted by montsnmags
If you want depressing (but "essential reading"), try Primo Levi's 'If This Is A Man' (for some reason renamed 'Survival in Auschwitz' in the US I believe). It is a mighty brilliant darkness he presents, and it'll stay with you.
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Primo Levi is definitely an author that everyone should read. I found his book "If Not Now, When" to be uplifting, until I realized it was his only fictional holocaust book. I had really gotten a lift from the people fighting back.
Andy