Re: [silk] Ten toughest books to read

[Indrajit Gupta]

--- On Wed, 16/6/10, Suresh Ramasubramanian <sur...@hserus.net> wrote:

> From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <sur...@hserus.net>
> Subject: Re: [silk] Ten toughest books to read
> To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
> Date: Wednesday, 16 June, 2010, 5:53
> Raj Shekhar [15/06/10 13:46 -0700]:
> > After I read Dune, I was very impressed.  Then I
> picked up its sequel, Dune Messiah and plodded through
> it.  I then picked up its sequel, Children of Dune and
> could not go beyond the first 10 or 15 pages and I gave up
> on that series.  Today I learned that there were 6
> novels in the Dune series.
> 
> Similar to my feelings reading Robert Jordan's 'The Wheel
> of Time'. Never
> did get past the first one and one or two pages of the
> second one that I
> flipped through at a bookstore.




It's addictive. Also, unlike Tolkien, he keeps picking up an obscure part of 
the narrative and polishing it for a book at a time. The result is that they 
won't finish until 2012!