I got through the first slog in this book, but the most unbearable one for me was Moby Dick. At some point I took a multiyear long break from it after getting 75% of the way in, and finally finished it off for completions sake. I was pretty young when I dug into it so maybe that was it, but I couldn't stand the random chapters that just talked about whales and didn't have much to do with the plot