I abandoned The God of Small Things halfway after reading about turds and realizing that the plot might never emerge, even if I read the whole damn book. Istanbul by Pamuk and Living to tell the tale are some of my other "abandonments."
Venky On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Aadisht Khanna <[email protected]> wrote: > On 15-06-2010 14:10, Udhay Shankar N wrote: >> >> So, what are your hardest books to read? >> >> Udhay >> > Books I've abandoned: > > * The Gospel According to Jesus Christ > * The God of Small Things > * Don Quixote (is a huge pain to get through unabridged) > > Books I've struggled to complete: > > * Vanity Fair - the way the apin in TGA got to Sruthi, the unrelenting > contempt for humanity in this got to me > * Snow by Orhan Pamuk - moves horribly slowly in the beginning, and > speeds up only at the end - you keep wondering what the payoff is going > to be. Also, left me with the vague feeling that if I was Turkish myself > I'd find it cliched/ too full of stereotypes. > > Books that I've finished but felt it wasn't worth the effort: > * Musharraff Ali Farooqi's translation of the Adventures of Amir Hamza - > the problem here is that almost every adventure is the same one. Amir > Hamza comes across a king, defeats him in single combat, and then either > kills him or converts him to the true faith. The perils of doing a > compilation of what're basically folktales / bedtime stories. > > This list is by no means complete, but this is all I can remember right now. > > > -- > Regards, > > Aadisht > Email for lists: [email protected] > Personal Email: [email protected] > Mobile (TN): +91-96000 23067 > Mobile (Del): +91-99584 04009 > Website: http://www.aadisht.net/ > Blog: http://www.wokay.in/ > >
