I am calling it with a couple books that have been on my currently reading list for uh....years π¬ Finally owning up that I am probably not going to finish them, non-fiction is so much harder for me to read and these three are 100% all non-fiction
Read my did-not-finish (i.e. scoreless) review of Don DeLillo's "White Noise," in which I approach the book for the first time since reading it at the age of 18, 36 years ago when the book first came out, and realize with a lot of dismay that it's much, much, much, much, MUCH worse than my teenaged nostalgic memories remembered it being. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29739174
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2023 reads, #17. DID NOT FINISH. There are two reasons I picked up Don DeLillo's 1985 White Noise last summer, and have been trying for the last nine months without success to actually get through it. Mostly, of course, it's because one of my favorite filmmakers, Noah Baumbach, famously did an adaptation of it for Netflix last Christmas, and I wanted to reacquaint myself with the book version first, so I could see how good or bad of a job he did adapting it; but it's also because this was the very first novel I ever read in college, bought literally my first week of my freshman year at the ...
The #Fedora update process looks pretty, compared to #Ubuntu, but the fact that I had to dig around to work out what to do is definitely a black mark against it.
#DidNotFinish is it?;*
And why isn't it set up to automatically check out-of-the-box?:*
Only a VM, so no real issue...
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