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Bought a $6 used copy of a dead novelist's book at a yard sale in Tulsa and couldn't finish chapter 3
I spent years nodding along when people called him a genius, but sitting with the actual pages, the plot just wandered and the guy clearly hated his own characters. A high school teacher of mine once said you can't argue with taste, but I think you can argue with pretending to have read something you didn't. What book did you finally admit you only praised because everyone else did?
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the_miles23d ago
Read half of Infinite Jest in college just so I could bring it up at parties and feel smart. Told everyone it changed my life when really I just liked the footnotes and wanted people to think I got it. Still haven't picked it back up and probably never will.
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matthew37123d ago
Had a buddy do the exact same thing with Gravity's Rainbow, carried it around campus like a badge. He finally admitted sophomore year he only made it 80 pages in and just liked how the cover looked on his desk.
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