Avoiding Literature

I've got a whole stack of Christmas-present books to read. Unfortunately, I've got to slog through The Brothers Karamazov before then. When I read it, yes, it's very good. When I stop reading it, however, I just can't get fired up to sit and read it.

Sigh. I'm a philistine. The last book I stopped reading due to annoyance and/or boredom was The Illuminatus Trilogy and I felt so guilty for the longest time. That was a couple of weeks after my wussy former college roommate's wedding a year or two ago. That stupid crappy book still stares at me from one of my bookshelves. I'm afraid I couldn't take Dostoyevsky's stuff shaming me, incompletely read, from the bookshelf.