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The King Must Die

Mary Renault

DID NOT FINISH: 28%

I was bored.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez

DID NOT FINISH: 19%

The magical realism was too much for me.

Complete Tales and Poems

Edgar Allan Poe

DID NOT FINISH: 3%

I found it immensely dull.

The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990

Charles Wright

DID NOT FINISH: 37%

I have a hard time with poetry, though this lot was beautiful.

The State and Revolution

Vladimir Lenin

DID NOT FINISH: 12%

One can only take so much of Lenin's pedantic fellatio of that one German.

Those Who Wander: America's Lost Street Kids

Vivian Ho

DID NOT FINISH: 8%

The author apparently forgot how data analysis works, considers 35 year olds to be "kids" and tries frantically (and unsuccessfully) to wash off her privilege guilt with flawed and poorly supported arguments about homelessness and homicidal behavior.

The Feminine Mystique

Betty Friedan

DID NOT FINISH

The Feminine Mystique is a painful read, both disorganized and poorly written. I got up to “...the women who “adjust” as housewives... are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps...”, at which point I cut my losses (hours of my life lost) and closed the book.

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

Audre Lorde

DID NOT FINISH

Zami puts into print stories and feelings the reader would rather not read but persists anyway to try to catch a satisfying definition of love.

The Trial

Franz Kafka

DID NOT FINISH

It was difficult to bring myself to give a shit and so I didn’t.

Nevada

Imogen Binnie

DID NOT FINISH