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Many times the names of characters are hard to pronounce. The plot and story is intriguing enough to plod through the names. Sometimes when I read books like this, I substitute the given name for something I can pronounce, like George. The story itself will keep me motivated. :) :)
:) :)! I would have missed out on reading some great books. The Trilogy of the Rings, for example, I would not have read had it not been for that crutch of being able to read through the names. Luckily, for me, I was around enough people who were familiar with the books and when they pronounced the name, I knew it was "George." ;) :)
Which sounds like my trying to read philosophy. I have plodded and plodded but so much of it I have never understood. Or derived anything from. Just not smart enough for many things.
Once I spent a few days in a location where I found a history book by the same Durant which I recall being actually quite lucid. Oh readable discussions of philosophy I understand but not sure how they get from the original texts to their understandings of it. Aristotle being the one happy exception. Once a correspondent on AB, a former teacher, had me read The Myth of Sisyphus and write a "paper" on it which I did. And which he said, had I been in his class, he would have given me an "A" on.
Merlin 