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Originally Posted by kermitology
Personally I just finished The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk. And my goodness was that a tough read. Originally written in Turkish, and translated to English, the book is a Nobel Prize winner and it's so swamped in imagery that you get bogged down in it. It's beautiful in terms of literature, but just so slow and hard to read, and though I'm an engineer, I pride myself on my literary understanding, and reading ability.
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I picked that one up too, got about 100 pages in, ran out of most of my reading time and realized I probably wasn't going to finish it. Gave it to my sister who's a bookaholic.