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<blockquote data-quote="catzetier" data-source="post: 59786199" data-attributes="member: 289585"><p>Yes. Although I'm not entirely sure that the craziest example I remember of this tendency counts as "reading" the book, or merely "perservering" with it: I attempted to read <em>Les Miserables</em> when I was twelve. I did read the first twenty or so pages fully... I read in massive detail about the Archdeacon's stupid breakfast and he isn't even a main character!... so I eventually ended up flipping through the pages and only reading the bits that mentioned Jean Valjean, Javert and/or Cosette. The book must have been over a thousand pages. The actual plot was perhaps a hundred pages. If you can name an author who pads his books out <em>more </em>atrociously I will be surprised. Even the worst Dickens books aren't that bad.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="catzetier, post: 59786199, member: 289585"] Yes. Although I'm not entirely sure that the craziest example I remember of this tendency counts as "reading" the book, or merely "perservering" with it: I attempted to read [I]Les Miserables[/I] when I was twelve. I did read the first twenty or so pages fully... I read in massive detail about the Archdeacon's stupid breakfast and he isn't even a main character!... so I eventually ended up flipping through the pages and only reading the bits that mentioned Jean Valjean, Javert and/or Cosette. The book must have been over a thousand pages. The actual plot was perhaps a hundred pages. If you can name an author who pads his books out [I]more [/I]atrociously I will be surprised. Even the worst Dickens books aren't that bad. [/QUOTE]
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