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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You know those books that everyone raves about .... "must reads".  And try as you might, and as intellectually stimulating as they are, you just cannot read one more page.

For me it's A Prayer for Owen Meaney (John Irving).  I just found it so tiresome.

What's yours?  [/quote]

Funny you mention this. So many people recommended A Prayer for Owen Meany to me. I finally read it a couple months ago and I hated it.

A Gentleman in Moscow is the book everyone loves but I hated. I read it as part of a book club otherwise I probably wouldn't have read more than 100 pages. It was much too wordy and descriptive for my taste. I did not need long descriptions of furniture in a hotel room. [/quote]

Thank you for making me feel better about A Gentleman in Moscow. I got bogged down about 1/3 of the way through and don’t feel like I can face finishing. But then I felt like the ending must be great of everyone else loves it so much. But then there’s the possibility that I just don’t like it. But then that makes me feel like a mean hater…. Way too much thought over a stupid novel, but my mom is one of the people who adored it, so I don’t feel right just dropping it. [/quote]

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