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Originally Posted by twowheels
Ugh... I've been trudging through a difficult book for 3 months  . I JUST finished it about five minutes ago. What a relief! [...] |
I think the last time I did that was with
Moby Dick by Herman Melville. It's a classic that I'd always been meaning to read (never did it at school). Finally did it a few years ago - even commented about the experience here. Why push myself through it? Well ... because I tend to be rather stubborn with books anyway, and because there are some wonderful quotes buried in there, and because it is a classic and I kept hoping it would come to something more. And, if you really want to know, I think all the great quotes have already been used on Star Trek - so I could have saved myself the trouble.
On the other hand, as hardcastle says, some books are worth the trouble, just that - for me -
Moby Dick wasn't one of them.