#like man ive never really had a big issue reading 1800s prose but there is something about this particular 1800s prose thats throwing me! | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

stevethehairington · 6 months

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man ive been doing great with my "read 100 pages a day" goal for like. every book ive read this year so far... EXCEPT this one 😩 i just cannot make it past 50 in one day and that is SUCH a bummer to me

#its not even that i dislike the book! because i dont!!#its just an EXTREMELY tough book to read #like man ive never really had a big issue reading 1800s prose but there is something about this particular 1800s prose thats throwing me!#i think its because it literally sounds like he took a normal sentence consulted his thesaurus and replaced 75% of the words with #bigger gaudier more pretentious fancy words fjdkfkd which makes the sentence VIRTUALLY UNREADABLE #and also some of his sentences are LONG and they just KEEP GOING #and its like my dude my guy hermy pal. nO #anyways i am on page 351 out of 522 and by GOD i want to be done with it asap but it will likely take me the rest of the week at this rate😩#siiiigh #mack reads #moby dick

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