MILLER’S BOOK REVIEW 📚

MILLER’S BOOK REVIEW 📚

I Quit One of Literature’s Greatest Novels

Some Questions to Ponder When a Book Just Doesn’t Work for You

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Joel J Miller
Aug 15, 2026
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To great public shame and personal consternation, I’ve decided to punt The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy back to the TBR for a future me. DNF, know what I mean? Literary bankruptcy. I just couldn’t go on.

There are elements of the book I loved. It’s actually hilarious, but somehow also brain-bleedingly tedious. My gripe emerges from the very struc…

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