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Old 2nd-July-2004, 12:35 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Re: Reading group crisis- Help!

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Originally Posted by Lynn
I'd go for this idea too.

Also - anyone had any books they really couldn't get into and didn't read much past the first 30 pages? I have had two - Ulysses (OK, didn't try too hard on that one) and Don Quixote (English translation).
Apparently the trick with Ulysses is to read it aloud. It's more of a prose piece than a novel. You can get the entire thing now as an audio book (which runs to 22 CDs!)

Stuff that's defeated me includes How the Dead Live (Will Self) , and a few of the 'classics' - Rob Roy, War and Peace, Dickens etc.
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