You wanted to read the book, you were excited to crack it open, you came into it with good faith and anticipation… but you ended up dnf-ing it. Which book and why?
Mine was The Maid by Nita Prose. It was for my book club and looked like a fun murder mystery. Instead I got instant manic-pixie-dream-neurodivergent-girl vibes, and I noped out before the crime scene was even found.
Yeah, its the only book I’ve ever put down. I got as far as the scene in the library where they are talking about something… shakespeare I think? There weren’t enough ideas that I could latch onto in any way to have fun with it. Maybe my vocabulary just isn’t big enough? Idk, i’ve read other ‘difficult’ books before and have never had so much trouble connecting
I scrolled down to find the people saying Ulysses because I knew I couldn’t possibly be alone in this feeling.
It’s quite simple. He proves by algebra that Hamlet’s grandson is Shakespeare’s grandfather and that he himself is the ghost of his own father.