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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any Italians here? I heard that the Neapolitan quartet books are much better in English. Curious to hear it that’s true.[/quote]

I really struggle with these books - I've read[b] too[/b].  I feel like they are overwrought and full of self importance.  I've chalked some of it up to the translation - someone is ALWAYS saying something ironically when i think they mean sardonically or maybe sarcastically.  The overuse of irony drove me crazy.  [/quote]

Whoops, that was supposed to be I've read the first two.  As I recall, the second book ends in a cliffhanger, and I thought I'd pick up the third, but I just never to bring myself to do it.

There's two books on the list I DNF, which is very rare for me.  Life After Life just became so tedious when she had to keep going back and reliving and reliving and reliving.  The Spanish Flu just broke me, and I when i told my book club that they laughed and said you'll never make it through the WWII section.  So I gave up.

I also could not make it through The Sympathizer.  It was too dark and depressing.  
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