[Borges]

What was ‘incomprehensible’ about it? It’s written in very forthright prose.

[satan]

Deponds on your definition of prose.

I like many others was forced to read it 50 years ago. I read it again last year. It’s fothright crap.

[wimpycat]

I'm not knocking the guy's literary talent. I read it as an adolescent and just couldn't identify with...what was his name, Holden Caulfield? I just didn't get it. I didn't care anything about him or what happened to him.

For what it's worth, I tried to read Ivanhoe 4 times, at 4 different times of life. It just never "took" with me. And I love great books.