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The only book I feel ashamed of not being able to finish reading is the Gulag Archipelago, hopefully I'll try again, but not really a literary priority. I also had a very hard time finishing War and Peace, the only thing that kept me going was the effort already spent, I didn't resonate at all with the book, it was very interesting to me felling nothing or very little for such highly acclaimed title. Some books are by nature hard to get into, like Faulkner's "Absalom!, Absalom!" I must have pushed through 150 pages, but wow, what a masterpiece, certainly worth your time of a 100 easy reads. Like Socrates ventured, pain and pleasure are very, or too closely related, just it would be pleasure to suffer the agony if you knew ecstasy was imminent, but with books that's hardly certain.
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