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Books you’ve given up on this recently, and why

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Phase2 · 18/04/2025 19:30

Thought it might be good to share, also maybe some encouragement to pick them up again!

Just ditched Bewilderment by Richard Powers. It was so dull and nothing happened. Got half way though, read the end and it’s in the charity pile.

starting the hare with amber eyes next.

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trainedopossum · 22/04/2025 23:46

Screamingabdabz · 21/04/2025 21:48

White Teeth by Zadie Smith. Everyone loses their shit over it but it’s set in the 80s (or at least the first pages were) and she writes something so glaringly anachronistic on the first page I just instantly lost all interest. I persevered a chapter in and it was so dull I wrote it off as pretentious bollocks.

Oh god I read it when it came out and was such a big deal. I only read it because I’d gone on holiday with only three books 🙃 but the moment I finished it I put it down and immediately forgot everything about it.

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