I once read Zen and the Art of Motorcyle Maintenance
by Robert M.Pirsig.

I did enjoy reading when I started it, at the end of reading it I had changed my mind and hated reading.
( spanishfly is so fucking sexy people impersonate him, Thu 2 Apr 2015, 15:38, 6 replies)

I learned how to read.
... At first I was happy to be learning how to read. It seemed exciting and magical, but then I read this: Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand. I read every last word of this garbage, and because of this piece of crap, I am never reading again!
(bass2mouth, Thu 2 Apr 2015, 17:00, closed)

people only have Ayn Rand
on the bookshelf to make them look intellectual. They think that it will confer 'intelligence' upon them by having read it. It wont.
(gearanach #wankwankwank, Fri 3 Apr 2015, 12:27, closed)

I don't believe anyone's ever read Ayn Rand
After the first fifty pages it's just endless pages of random words.
(zebideedoodah likes florence but prefers venice, Sat 4 Apr 2015, 0:21, closed)

every single fucking list
of books you "should have read".
So I did
It was pretty awesome, but only once you get over the fact that it is in fact just an existential essay woven into a pretty average 'journey' timeline. I liked it
but I'm not sure its 'one of the most important books of the 20th century' blah de blah de blah...
(gearanach #wankwankwank, Fri 3 Apr 2015, 12:26, closed)

I felt like this after struggling through a Richard Bach book

(Porcupine, Sat 4 Apr 2015, 11:28, closed)

I worked through that book...
And came out at the other side not really knowing what I had read.

I was quite young at the time though and had managed to convince myself that it was a cool book. I then read the follow up Lila and that was equally incomprehensible.

Looking back now, I think I only read it because I could not afford a motorbike, but I have a slightly different understanding of Quality.
( Rev. Jayneflakes Buy my book, I need the cash for drugs and hookers, Tue 7 Apr 2015, 3:06, closed)