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Ever Been So Angry Reading A Book You Threw It Across The Room?
Topic Started: Feb 17 2016, 02:42 AM (23 Views)
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(Reddit) Have You Ever Been So Frustrated At A Book That You Threw It Across A Room?
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I was 19 and was given a copy of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" and was told it was a life-changing book.

I could have gotten more out of an Ikea manual on how to tie shoe laces. I got 2/3 through it and pitched it across the room where it bounced off the wall and sat there for 2 weeks until I picked it up to return to girlfriend.

Fast forward 20 years later and I'm on the other side of the continent where a new girlfriend says, "You HAVE to read this book! It's life changing!" I get half way through and out of pure agitation, I pitch it across the room at the wall.

2 weeks later, I pick it up to return to the girlfriend. Look in the inside flap to see the author had only written one other book. "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". I've always been an avid reader, and of the hundreds of books I've read, the only 2 books I never finished and threw across the room were by the same asshole, 20 years apart! FUCK YOU, Robert Pirsig!~

Has anyone experienced this level of outrage at a book? (Reddit user frostygnosis)
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