Which brings me to my first breakthrough decision about this 1001 list. There are just going to be some books that I can't stand to bear and will henceforth feel okay giving up on trying to finish. Lunch is the first work that I have officially marked as "abandoned". I already know that Finnegan's Wake will probably also follow in Lunch's footsteps from what I have read/heard from it so far, but up until this point I had every intention of trying again someday.
Anyway, here's what I gathered from 12 pages + prologue:
It's a work based entirely on drug addiction, and was written by the author while he was suffering from this "disease". Naturally, this subject matter makes the tone gritty, but the additional nonsensical beatnik quality is exactly the type of prose that I absolutely cannot enjoy. There is no storyline and I swear to god I did not get any meaning out of any of the words that were being put into my brain within any of the pages I read after the prologue. Clearly, this was a complete waste of time for me, which is why I have chosen to stop.
So back to Half Price Books this book goes...but, I'm feeling good about this new development in identifying things that I dislike enough to give up on.
Current stats on my progress:
Finished/read: 162/1001
Abandoned: 1
