To: Dirtysnowbank
Don't know about anything, but Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" is the only book I've never been able to finish. After the first 100 or so pages you know what the ending will be, but have about another 700 pages to go to the end.
Maybe it's better if you can read it in the original Russian.
145 posted on
03/10/2007 4:57:52 AM PST by
Woodman
("One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives." PW)
To: Woodman
Are you sure it was Crime and Punishment? I don't think it is that long a book. Maybe you are thinking of The Brothers Karamazov? Either way, I love Dostoyevsky!
I also, could never get through:
any Pynchon
James Joyce
Rushdie
and sadly, Paradise Lost. (over my head)
219 posted on
03/10/2007 6:38:40 AM PST by
keeper53
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