i started reading notes from underground a few weeks ago. i picked it because i really really REALLY like albert camus’ work and figured it would be a little similar.

it is, i think, but i’m not enjoying it at all. it feels too depressing and dark and i feel like it smells bad (lol). i’m just not loving it and i have a lot of other books that i want to read now but i feel the pressure to finish this one. it’s a short book so it shouldn’t take me long but still.

i can’t get myself to leave it unfinished, i feel like i’m commiting a sin or something lmao.

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  • oh_please_god_no@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    It’s up to you. Let’s look at both scenarios:

    1. If you leave it unfinished: Reading is a personal activity. No one will know if you stop reading something and that time can be spent reading something you love.
    2. If you choose to finish it: well, you still might not like it, but at least you have read the whole thing and can judge the entire work instead of where you stopped.

    For what it’s worth: I took 2 years of false starts and stops to read Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and I finally finished it this year and truly ended up loving it. So you never know!