The exchange on whether or why one has not read Proust made me think it might be fun to name books we've tried to read and maybe failed, maybe struggled through.
I've read that Stephen Hawking's A brief history of time' is the book most likely to be begun but not finished, or even bought but never read. I don't know if that assertion was based on research.
The hardest book I've ever read was Rowan Williams' 'The Edge of Words'. I kept thinking I thought I saw what he was on about but gradually fell behind and had to stop and re-read a paragraph, eventually wondering if it was worth the effort. I also wondered if it had occurred to him that he was expecting too much of his readers. Yet others may have breezed through it and say 'what's the problem? I couldn't put it down.'
I've read that Stephen Hawking's A brief history of time' is the book most likely to be begun but not finished, or even bought but never read. I don't know if that assertion was based on research.
The hardest book I've ever read was Rowan Williams' 'The Edge of Words'. I kept thinking I thought I saw what he was on about but gradually fell behind and had to stop and re-read a paragraph, eventually wondering if it was worth the effort. I also wondered if it had occurred to him that he was expecting too much of his readers. Yet others may have breezed through it and say 'what's the problem? I couldn't put it down.'
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