Tried this about 10 years ago.

Read (more like suffered through) 70% and found myself just flipping pages skipping stuff just to get through it.

One of the first books I ever quit.

I do the same. But specifically when a book I had high expectations for falls short.

I’m not comparing the writing to Ayn Rand, just the overall experience of my own expectations based on what the larger reading community recommends.

I had lots of people tell me to read Ayn Rand (specifically Atlas Shrugged) and thought it was pretty dense.

It’s difficult for me to be critical of the author as I suspect reading this in Chinese or whatever the native version was would be a completely different experience.