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My policy is to read at least 100 pages (or about 1/5 to 1/4) of the book, in order to let the author finish introducing all aspects of the novel that will become relevant. If I am still genuinely bored with the book, I'll put it down -- more reluctantly so if it's a highly acclaimed book. An example is The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath -- I've read dozens of positive reviews, but found it genuinely dull. I feel there must be something wrong with me, so I'll leave it on the shelf until I can work up some desire to finish.

This. Buy this.

I've only just bought this book, and with the overwhelmingingly positive feedback from all angles, I can't wait to get started .

But surely Edgar Allan Poe deserves a mention as well. Surely one of the most prolific short story writers ever?

Chekhov. That is all.

I thought Dostoevsky was an existentialist, and spent a lot of his time attacking nihilism?

You read fast. I'm looking forward to those reviews, by the way =).

And what a great video to go along with it too.

Now that's a good book, and one that I thoroughly enjoyed. Hope you'll do the same.

Well it's a good thing I mentioned that, because I was very close indeed to buying that massive tome. My policy has always been to buy the best possible books when reading translations from non-English languages (because, being trilingual, I know how much is lost in translation, and can't shake the feeling of being cheated of the author's style and original intent when reading translated novels) and buying English texts in the cheapest possible edition -- it's not like they're going to change the text itself. But I guess when it comes to literature of such high quality, it's worth investing properly in a decent edition -- it could, and should, after all, last you for quite some years, perhaps even your entire life, provided you're careful.

Once I finish reading The Stranger in French (L'

True, if you want commentary -- but otherwise, how cheap they are! Shakespeare's and Austen's collected works for less than