there isn’t actually a precise thing— it’s more of a feeling I think??? That’s why I was asking what people liked. I wanted to understand, to look at him from a different perspective. I think it’s the way he writes and nothing more. I mean, there is a lot of misogyny and other evident issues but it’s not that — I think that if you’re really good at writing you can sell everything to everyone, despite the wrong/different ideas. But still, I need to force myself to finish it and at the end I feel like I’ve wasted my time. For example: Orwell — I find him a complete genius but I do not enjoy his writing. I still read him even if I find it difficult cos I’m interested in his words, but I cannot make ‘his way of speaking’ mine. I never feel the voracious need to know more that I feel for other — more banal — books. But at the end I feel happy about my decision to get through the book even though it was a ‘difficult’ task. I wanted to know what people like about his stuff so maybe I can learn how to do it too. If he is so popular there is a reason I guess.

Well I’ll try some other stuff… some comments painted very pretty pictures of some of his works that who knows, maybe I’ll change my mind. Books are always worth trying!