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Don Basilio
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« on: 17:00:26, 06-10-2007 »
Now and again I have a twinge of ... well, embarassment, about those lengthy tomes I meant to read many years ago, started and never got round to finishing.

Among others I remember

Trotsky My Life
Sterne Tristram Shandy
Marcuse One Dimensional Man
                   (this was  just before someone discovered inclusive language.  I take it Marcuse is as old fashioned now as Thomas Carlyle?)
Augustine The City of God

Any members like to own up to works they have never got round to finishing cover to cover...
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« Reply #1 on: 17:24:46, 06-10-2007 »
Oh, tons.

Off the top of my head:

Ellmann's biography of Joyce
The Man Without Qualities
Foucault's The Order of Things (not even that long, in the English version)
Stein's The Making of Americans (although nobody's ever finished this book, I didn't make it far at all, fan though I am of Stein)
Daniel Paul Schreber's Memoir of my Nervous Illness (an absolutely fascinating book recommended to all, esp. in the NYRB edition, although for some reason I can't seem to finish it -- although I've gotten about 7/8's of the way through -- without getting distracted)
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« Reply #2 on: 20:12:05, 06-10-2007 »
The Bible

That's not a glib posting by the way, I always keep meaning to try to appreciate it as literature but never get that far.
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Don Basilio
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« Reply #3 on: 19:00:55, 07-10-2007 »
Bobby -

The Bible is an anthology.  Indeed the Old Testament is the entire corpus of ancient Hebrew literature.  So just take it a book at a time.

I own a number of sacred texts in Penguin translation, and I always feel there is something missing in trying to read them cover to cover in bed or a comfy chair.  That is not the spirit!
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