books what intimidate you (1 Viewer)

[magicbastarder]

i've picked up godel, escher, bach: an eternal golden braid a few times in the book shop, tried to convince myself it looks fascinating, and put it back down each time because it looks like a hell of a lot to get my head around.

i tried reading finnegan's wake once, but that didn't intimidate me, it just confused me.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

been meaning to read the brothers karamazov for yonks and finally borrowed it from the library the other day but its 900 pages of small text. i dont know if i should get involved when the world is so full of easier books i'd like to read too. likewise, The Phenomenology of Perception by Merleau-Ponty has been sitting looking at me for years - i'll probably never read it now.

 

[pete]

been sitting on the shelf here for ages now.

 

[theoootini]

Ulysses. i suppose i'll get to it at some stage...

 

[Lili Marlene]

as if Pamela wasn't difficult enough.

Clarissa, or, the book that laughs at war and peace

 

[Mitchum]

Yeah Finnegans Wake looks like a beast. Being fluent in Latin & Greek might help but life's too short.

I'd like to tackle Proust's 'A La Recherche Du Temps Perdue' in one go. Some day.

'House Of Leaves' looks typographically intimidating.

 

[Doctor Muscles]

 

[taubstumm]

been sitting on the shelf here for ages now.

i read that. you're right to feel hesitant. my state of mind when i was around half-way though wasn't so much that i wanted to read the rest, but that was determined not to let it defeat me. fighting in the wars themselves would've been a doddle compared to reading fisky writing about them.

 

[george mcfly]

the flight of the doves

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

 

[cephalopod]

 

[Mormon Nailer]

Ulysses. i suppose i'll get to it at some stage...

easy solution is skip all Stephen Dedalus parts cause he's an irritating cunt and just cut straight to Leopold Bloom.

 

[Mormon Nailer]

i read that. you're right to feel hesitant. my state of mind when i was around half-way though wasn't so much that i wanted to read the rest, but that was determined not to let it defeat me. fighting in the wars themselves would've been a doddle compared to reading fisky writing about them.

Every fucking bus ride the man ever took - it's a struggle allright

 

[shitepipe]

Ulysses. i suppose i'll get to it at some stage...

Audiobooks.

seriously. it all makes perfect sense. then go back and read the original.

just put it on your mp3 player and listen to it when you have an hour on a bus or whatever...

 

[Scientician 0.8]

That's a good idea. the bits of Ulysses I've read I've enjoyed reading it aloud but you can't really do that on the bus or people think you're a mentaller.

 

[flashback]

been sitting on the shelf here for ages now.

funny.
I have been starting this book...

for ages. I even brought it into work and left it on the shelf here for a while.
I feel like I should understand it. Or something.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

the flight of the doves

deadly book, even better film.

 

[potlatch]

funny.
I have been starting this book...

for ages. I even brought it into work and left it on the shelf here for a while.
I feel like I should understand it. Or something.

That's a horriffic cover. Shame, Robert Fisk's publishing company. SHAME.

 

[c0De_n1NjA]

Of Grammatology. i got about three pages in and went back to the beano.

 

[theoootini]

just finishing gravity's rainbow now. great book...i have against the day sitting on the shelf too. just can't see myself mustering the courage to open that for quite a while after rainbow...