I loved
Ulysses and
Moby Dick, but they are rather a slog.
Catch-22 is pure fun. I did abandon
LotR, even at the right age for it. So not my thing, at any age. Knowing about
Atlas Shrugged is enough.
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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
Those Girl with the Dragon Tattoo books I can understand giving up on. Not for difficulty, or bad writing, it's just that the central female character soon becomes an immortal superhero, like a comic book. What will she do next? Crack into the NSA and bring about world peace while beating the heavy weight champion of the world to a pulp with one arm broken?
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Well, they were badly written, too, in addition to being absurd. But I admit it, I kept turning the pages just the same. Sheer rubbernecking.