Books/Authors you expected to like, but didn't

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Originally Posted by Anton Hermes

I can't imagine why anyone would truly think that, considering Joyce spent nearly twenty years writing it. The staggering intricacy and ingenuity of Finnegans Wake make it seem highly unlikely he wrote it as a lark.

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It took Brahms 20 years to compose his first symphony but he didn't write it so that it was unplayable.

I thought I'd like The Great Gatsby. I did not.

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Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf

I thought I'd like The Great Gatsby. I did not.

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I think our friendship has just ended...

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Originally Posted by Anton Hermes

I can't imagine why anyone would truly think that, considering Joyce spent nearly twenty years writing it. The staggering intricacy and ingenuity of Finnegans Wake make it seem highly unlikely he wrote it as a lark.

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Anyone who spends twenty years writing a book is not working on it very much at a time.