Piranesi

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Is it worth it? I've picked it up SO many times and just can't get past a few pages. I saw it recommended on here ahes ago.

I just can't....I don't know. I find it irritating.

I didn't enjoy it. I felt like I wasn't quite 'getting it' and was just a bit bemused when I'd finished it. Based on my experience I'd say cut your losses now!

I have done the exact same thing! Will be interested in the answers 😂

Oh dear 😂

I loved it. I think that ultimately I found the endings and explanations less rewarding than just travelling through the world it created. But it was a wonderful ride while it lasted.

I really liked it.

I liked it!

Hated it.

Blew my face off. Loved it.

Hated it! I am fascinated by the fact that some people loved it!!

I loved it too but it took some perseverance to get through the first few pages. Worth it imo

Loved it. Listened to it, rather than read it, which might have helped with getting into it, as it is hard work to start - but so worth it, imo.

Don't do it to yourself!! Bloody alabaster statues and hallways zzzzzzz

I loved it..... but its very sad

I loved it too. In particular the "travelling" (as @ReadWithScepticism says upthread). Very immersive.

I loved it, but I listened to the audiobook rather than reading a printed copy.

Agree with this - I absolutely loved exploring the world but didn't get as much from the ending. Like some others here, I listened to it so maybe that helps!

I really enjoyed it, it was a few years ago though so can't remember if it took me a little while to get into it or not.
Have you read any others by Susanna Clarke?

It was hard to get into but I enjoyed it and it's stayed with me since I read it a few years ago

I listened to it on Audible and found it highly irritating. Constant repetitive droning about "In the west hall on the 57th day after the albatross came". I've been listening to it on and off for months as I hate leaving a book unfinished but I'm not sure it's worth the slog...

I thought it was so beautifully written, and Piranesi's world so gorgeously described, that I read it through twice - starting again immediately as I finished it. Echos of Gormenghast.

But there would be no variety in literary fiction, if we all liked the same things!

Loved the first two thirds. Then it felt as though she’d been told to wrap it up so it ended really abruptly and oddly. I’d love to read something that was about 900 pages long set in the world of the first 2/3 of it.

I’ve been meaning to give Gormenghast another go because I found it unbearably dull and stopped after about 20-30 pages, so this has given me another push to do that.

God, I listened to the audiobook and hated it.

I hated it.

Was really looking forward to it, as I loved Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell so was very disappointed. It just felt like a waste of time (that’s from someone who spends hours and days in a book with no recrimination!)

I loved Gormenghast as an 18 year old who adored Sting! He loved it and named his daughter Fuschia.

Piranesi was 'odd' but I did enjoy it - I think.....