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<blockquote data-quote="Brunello" data-source="post: 547719" data-attributes="member: 4458"><p>As a newbie I've been looking at some of the older threads that aren't buried too deeply in the ancient archives and thought this idea was worth keeping alive.</p><p></p><p>I agree about Dune which never actively drew me in. As I read it was like peering through a dim window on some remote events. Moby Dick was also slow but, if you don't mind the forlorn mindset it puts you in, worth the effort.</p><p></p><p>All I can say about Ulysses by James Joyce is that if a person could write a novel while in a drunken stupor, this is it.</p><p></p><p>The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco was also critically acclaimed but I never connected with it.</p><p></p><p>More recently I slogged through Neal Stephenson's 998-page Anathem. which some critics were saying was the best Sci-Fi novel of the last two decades. Really? I did enjoy Stephenson's Seveneves which had a lot of interesting ideas to ponder. But with Anathem the tedium of describing meals, or walking from room to room, as an attempt to make the setting seem real to the reader, is just too indulgent. Somewhere between page 450 and 550 I grew impatient and skipped over a hundred pages. It resumed as if I hadn't missed a thing. The ending was not worth the painful ordeal of getting there. Be curious to hear of others here had a different impression on this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brunello, post: 547719, member: 4458"] As a newbie I've been looking at some of the older threads that aren't buried too deeply in the ancient archives and thought this idea was worth keeping alive. I agree about Dune which never actively drew me in. As I read it was like peering through a dim window on some remote events. Moby Dick was also slow but, if you don't mind the forlorn mindset it puts you in, worth the effort. All I can say about Ulysses by James Joyce is that if a person could write a novel while in a drunken stupor, this is it. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco was also critically acclaimed but I never connected with it. More recently I slogged through Neal Stephenson's 998-page Anathem. which some critics were saying was the best Sci-Fi novel of the last two decades. Really? I did enjoy Stephenson's Seveneves which had a lot of interesting ideas to ponder. But with Anathem the tedium of describing meals, or walking from room to room, as an attempt to make the setting seem real to the reader, is just too indulgent. Somewhere between page 450 and 550 I grew impatient and skipped over a hundred pages. It resumed as if I hadn't missed a thing. The ending was not worth the painful ordeal of getting there. Be curious to hear of others here had a different impression on this. [/QUOTE]
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