Unread books make many readers feel guilty. Librarians, teachers and bookstore owners are also familiar with this phenomenon.
For some, it's the length (Beth Sutton-Ramspeck hasn't read Tristram Shandy) For others it is complexity (see: “Ulysses’s” above) And for still others, it is...the weight? That one one is Robert Caro's biography of Robert Moses, "The Power Broker’’ Some people have tried – really! – but they can’t empathize with the book they're not reading.. Many respondents had a simple reason why they didn't pick up that one book: There's only so much time in the day.. Part of the “Life is too short” faction specifically highlighted the time-sensitive advantages of library books.. Bev Robertson of Kent, Ohio, wanted "The Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1" for Christmas - in 2010.