Post by account_disabled on Dec 26, 2023 22:33:52 GMT -5
I don't know how many people have started reading a book and then not been able to finish it. The first time it happened to me was with the parody of The Lord of the Rings , The Lord of the Rings by Henry N. Beard and Douglas C. Kenney, which a friend's son convinced me to read. When I got to about page 40 I gave it back to him. Unreadable. The second time it happened to me was Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Yes, it will be a fabulous novel, in the beautiful translation by Cesare Pavese, but on page 50 I abandoned it. Maybe it wasn't the right time to read that novel.
We'll see in the future. The third time it happened to me with Jonathan Strange and Susanna Clark's Mr. Norrell . When I reached just over 300 pages (the book is over 800) I stopped. I don't remember Special Data exactly why, but, I confess, it was boring me, it didn't flow, even though it was well written and even fluent . Yes, a flowing novel but it didn't flow. So I decided to pick it up again a few months ago, but too much time had passed and I remembered almost nothing of what I had read. So I started it all over again. Reading him happened at a time when I had decided to read several books at the same time. And the novel began to vegetate... in the sense that I preferred picking up the other four books than this one.
Then I forced myself to read it every day, but once I got to about page 250 I couldn't go on. It doesn't flow. Perhaps there are too many situations, many of which I believe are absolutely useless for the purposes of the story. Perhaps the author is too verbose. There are too many words, I think, to describe too little. I failed to read this novel for the second time. I therefore find myself forced to put Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell back in the library, waiting for the right moment to start it again for the third time and hopefully be able to finish it. I moved the bookmark to Salem's Lot by Stephen King, the first novel by this author which I will start reading today.
We'll see in the future. The third time it happened to me with Jonathan Strange and Susanna Clark's Mr. Norrell . When I reached just over 300 pages (the book is over 800) I stopped. I don't remember Special Data exactly why, but, I confess, it was boring me, it didn't flow, even though it was well written and even fluent . Yes, a flowing novel but it didn't flow. So I decided to pick it up again a few months ago, but too much time had passed and I remembered almost nothing of what I had read. So I started it all over again. Reading him happened at a time when I had decided to read several books at the same time. And the novel began to vegetate... in the sense that I preferred picking up the other four books than this one.
Then I forced myself to read it every day, but once I got to about page 250 I couldn't go on. It doesn't flow. Perhaps there are too many situations, many of which I believe are absolutely useless for the purposes of the story. Perhaps the author is too verbose. There are too many words, I think, to describe too little. I failed to read this novel for the second time. I therefore find myself forced to put Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell back in the library, waiting for the right moment to start it again for the third time and hopefully be able to finish it. I moved the bookmark to Salem's Lot by Stephen King, the first novel by this author which I will start reading today.