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There are lots of books that I have abandoned halfway through and would like to try and read again, to see if they are as overrated as I thought or if I was just in a strange mood when I tried to read them and they are actually good.
To The Lighthouse is one. Too many long sentences (every statement has multiple sub-clauses) and I got stuck with ambiguous pronouns, i.e., she will mention a 'he' at the end of a sentance in which she has introduced a dozen or so male characters, so which one is now being referred to as 'he'? Maybe it has an internal logic which you learn after a while.
Lolita too. I found it boring; no matter how well-written it was, it didn't seem to have any momentum or substance (unlike my favourite books by Flaubert, Proust, which are also well-written and do have those things). Maybe it gets better.
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