The Tale of Genji

Great writing. Terrible story. 1120 pages of who is he going to rape, have an affair with or objectify next. It's okay for 100 pages or so and then it's exhausting, boring, horrifying and just sad. I read this in college because I had to. As a grown ass woman I decided to give it another go. Why!?!

2.5
I liked the structure of the book and that some of the story and dialogue were written in the form of poems, but I didn't enjoy the story or cared for the characters at all.
And the fact that it was so long didn't help either.

I FINISHED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!