Boys from Biloxi by John Grisham.
I found the first part (the boys) very boring, and unnecessarily detailed. I could have skipped it without consequence. But the rest of the book was pretty good and enjoyable.
I’m attempting a run of the wheel of time at the moment and it’s just so long winded. I’m taking a break with other books for now.
Gunslinger, first part of The Dark Tower series - The style just wasn’t for me. I finished the series though, 100% best series I’ll ever read.
The Count of Monte Cristo. I did like it, but I expect the abridged version would have been better for me. There were parts that were a struggle to get through. It just seems like the unabridged version is more recommended, so I felt compelled to get through it
There’s a reason behind it. When it was first published, it was serialised, so Dumas had an incentive to drag it along, also it romanticizes travels around Europe because it was fancy at the time.
The plot behind it is still one of the most compelling I have ever read and a revenge story that few modern works of art can match.
The Game of Thrones books. They all blur into one miserable slog. I disliked it so much that I’ve avoided the TV show (please don’t tell me how good it is, I’ve survived this long with out seeing it and I’ll continue to).
