There is no point in reading it if you have to force yourself but Rodney Merrill might be more enjoyable for you since it's actually poetry

>>25117693
I think the best way is to read easier books till you work your way up to more challenging ones. Don't give up champ, youll get there someday

>To know the vintage and quality of a wine one need not drink the whole cask. It must be perfectly easy in half an hour to say whether a book is worth anything or worth nothing. Ten minutes are really sufficient, if one has the instinct for form. Who wants to wade through a dull volume? One tastes it, and that is quite enough-- more than enough, I should imagine.
-Oscar Wilde

Never force yourself to read something. If you're not enjoying yourself now, you won't enjoy the book in 10 hours either. Drop it and come back to it in a few years.
That said, you have shit taste. The Iliad is a masterpiece.

>>25117760
You can enjoy a book while also finding it cumbersome to read

>>25117764
I know, Gravity's Rainbow is my favourite novel, even though it took me like half a year to get through it. But there's the kind of grind you can enjoy, and the kind of grind that makes you want to pluck your eyes out. I never managed to finish W&P.

>>25117775
>Gravity's Rainbow is my favourite novel
Sorry to hear that

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>>25117693
>and he fell hard in the dust

>>25117829
Like a lion on a stone mountain.

>>25117760
>The Iliad is a masterpiece.
It's capeshit for 8th century BC peasants to be entertained while doing tedious work.

It has historical, not artistic merit.

>>25117832
It's literally the greatest piece of literature ever

>>25117693
If it really bothers you, when it gets to the battle scenes you can just skim all the "and he pierced Polydektopolkus below the nipple" and just imagine a battle scene until you get to something else happening.

>>25117829
kino

>>25117870
>It has historical, not artistic merit.
It’s bait, or a nigger post.

Stop trying to associate me to the male/female bullshit before autistic Jws try to force feminize me again through intense abuse.

The only female is Venus, and she just an usurper of the role of a missing male star.

There is no male/female abomination.

Just stop. Stop being autistic numbers fags trying to do esoteric work for others.

Im trying to undo it, not validate it.

There is no female identity within me. Just me. And if I were to split it would be two males.

I mean it's in that same book. Achilles and Patroclus mix their ashes because that is the union of two important entities - two men.

And then they even share the afterlife...with another man.

>>25117870
Imagine actually thinking this.

>>25117903
How, its entertainment for the masses.

>25117922
This person is insane, and I must be crazy too for coming back to this shit hole image board expecting better.

>>25117832
You're pathetic

>>25117693
Just read the damn thing as if it were a song. This is poetry, OP. In case you haven't noticed, it is meant to be listened, not read. So just read through it and don't stop, follow the rhythm. After you finish, you can go back and check whatever.

You're a peasant and weren't meant to enjoy art. Just go back to video games.

Don't waste your time reading Homer or any ancient rubbish of Greek or Roman origin, it's the kind of garbage that midwits and pagans pretend is good.

Read KJB and Dostoevsky instead.

>>25117693
>watches the same repetitive animeslop with hundreds of animes sharing a mere dozen character archetypes and tropes between them

>>25118262
Not OP but I don’t mind anime if only for the fact that the girls make my wangus hard.
>>25117693
OP, if you can handle watching pretentious lesbian slop like Utena then you can handle the Iliad. Stop being a fucking zoomer. If only there were a way to age these fucking retards up.

>>25118200
hahahaha

>>25117967
It's by no means a controversial take

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>>25118200
Wow!!!