There’s no reason to suffer from the plight of a book you don’t enjoy!! I personally love books with grandiose sweeping misery and yearning like Call Me By Your Name, The Price of Salt, the masterprice of Brideshead Revisited, other sad bangers like Normal People, Fleabag: The Scriptures!
These books bring you exquisite words like de rigueur, Grand Remonstrance, compunction, impertinence, clodhoppers, sycophantic, cretinous, louts, épergne, etc.
These words put me in a top hat and have me teaching Audrey Hepburn about the Rain in Spain Staying Mainly on the plane!!
You’d never guess that so many of my other books are silly nonsense and it’s that duality that just keeps the lights on let me tell ya!