Mine’s The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. Thick books never stopped me from reading nonstop before, but there are entries in the book that just has me stopping and taking time to mull things over.
Also, sharing this excerpt: “Not to be sentimental, as I sound, but why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?”
Took me four months to read “Seven Pillars of Wisdom” by T.E. Lawrence (“of Arabia”) and I skimmed some of the details of tribes. I was reading other things at the time; could only handle so much of it at once.
Fascinating book, a mix of tedious minutia about Arab tribes and fighting the Turks in Arabia during WWI, chapters of deep philosophical musing, some shocking life details, and insight into his semi-neurotic imposter syndrome. He was an interesting guy.