I abandoned reading this scholarly tome last week. I have had it as an ARC since July, and have tried on three different occasions to tackle it. I cannot get past the first 40 pages. It is well-written, but has far too much detail about a topic that just couldn't grab me. I have never been interested enough in anthropology to read deeply. I have an overall intellectual appreciation of the subject, but no desire to delve into it.
I'm not ready to part with it yet. It's a NewYork Times notable book of the year (2009) and I'm going to try to read it in pieces instead of all at once. It's gotten such great reviews, I feel like if I persist, I'll get something out of it, but for now, I've got a bucket load of ARCs waiting, so it will have to go onto the DNF-try again pile.
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I always feel bad when I've accepted an ARC and can't get into it, but ---it happens right? Time to move on as you did.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I think you have more than fulfilled your ARC duty.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny how we keep a book like this around, unwilling to part with it as if at some point we will still want to read it.