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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wonder Boys, which pains me because I'm a huge Michael Chabon fan. I've tried three or four times and just can't do it.[/quote]

Me too! I love a bunch of his other novels (Telegraph Avenue, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Kavalier & Clay) but this one ... I just could not get through it.

+1 also on the people who could not finish The Corrections. I also could not get through his other book, "America." I just don't like his writing style, I guess -- I think it's pretentious and over-written, and just not fun at all.

As for The Goldfinch haters, I agree that this book seriously needed to be edited down, especially the second part that takes place in Vegas. But overall I enjoyed the book -- I found the sequence in the museum gripping, and I found parts of it to be very moving. The same goes for "Life After Life" -- I thought it was inventive, nicely written, and even kinda funny at times.

Now "Atonement" and "Saturday" -- I've tried and tried with Ian McEwan and I just cannot get into his work. A good friend raved about Saturday, called it a tour de force, but after a couple of chapters... snoozeville. I also cannot get down with David Foster Wallace. I was sorry to hear of his death, I've enjoyed some of his non-fiction, but Infinite Jest? The book was so bad I left it in a public park. Just left it. Couldn't even bear to haul the thing home with me.

For the Austen-hater: I too could not get into her novels for years and years, even though I have a dear friend who was always trying to talk me into it -- she is such a fan that she even went on a Jane Austen-themed travel package in the UK. Well, at some point, it was like a switch finally flipped -- I picked up "Emma" and have since worked my way through several of her novels, and enjoyed them. Surprise!

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