We all have at least one: the title(s) that you still haven't finished weeks, months, even years after you started reading it, but nevertheless you are determined to finish... someday.

Let's commiserate. What's on your stuck book list?

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[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

This is how I generally read books, so there are dozens.

If you only count books I'm more than a couple chapters into, then in descending order of how long they've been on the list:

Gödel, Escher, Bach

Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson

Finnegan's Wake

Gravity's Rainbow

House of Leaves

They're all great books, but they require a bit more dedicated reading time than I generally have.

[–] Eq0@literature.cafe 1 points 1 day ago

Gödel, Escher, Bach was a hard read, it took me until i think half way before it started to “roll”, and the mathematical logic chapter was rough. Overall, worth reading in its entirety. In particular its section on AI and the ideas they had at the time was very interesting, even if by now they are significantly out of date.

Some I’m not a music fan, for me personally the connection to music didn’t make the book any easier, but actually taught me some cool things about music I had never thought about.

[–] perspectiveshifting@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

House of leaves for me too 😅 got 80% and loved it, then got busy again... now I'm intimidated to pick it back up

[–] Eq0@literature.cafe 1 points 1 day ago

I think I’m almost 50% in, but it has been sitting somewhere for the last months. It is really intimidating!

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I got to chapter IX, flipped through it to estimate how long it would take to read it properly, and dutifully put the bookmark in it.

[–] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

This is one of my favs! It’s worth finishing.

Also, if you like House of Leaves, check out Bats of the Republic by Zachary Thomas Dodson. It’s also Egrodic.