Lanky_Pomegranate530 to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 2 years agoWhat is a popular book that everyone buys but nobody reads?message-square284fedilinkarrow-up1193arrow-down110
arrow-up1183arrow-down1message-squareWhat is a popular book that everyone buys but nobody reads?Lanky_Pomegranate530 to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 2 years agomessage-square284fedilink
minus-squarebubbalu [they/them]linkfedilinkEnglish8•2 years agoI convinced myself it was very important to read this book when I was 17, physically dragged my eyes across ~200 pages of it, and understood nothing of what was happening.
minus-squareGrimble [he/him,they/them]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 years agoLmao me with Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (makes sense ig it’s just a guys whole childhood)
minus-squarebubbalu [they/them]linkfedilinkEnglish3•2 years agoi liked the hell-fire sermon. My one office job I ever had, I did a dramatic reading of it for an old man and a former improv kid.
minus-squareGrimble [he/him,they/them]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 years agoSdgflk I read that part out loud for no reason at a band camp once and nobody was interested. I was a weird kid
Ulysses by James Joyce.
I convinced myself it was very important to read this book when I was 17, physically dragged my eyes across ~200 pages of it, and understood nothing of what was happening.
Lmao me with Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (makes sense ig it’s just a guys whole childhood)
i liked the hell-fire sermon. My one office job I ever had, I did a dramatic reading of it for an old man and a former improv kid.
Sdgflk I read that part out loud for no reason at a band camp once and nobody was interested. I was a weird kid