I guess I'm intimidated by my books? | Intimidating Books

I was very kindly tagged by Nicole ‪@noteworthyfiction‬ and you can go check out her video • Intimidating Books Tag... where she talks about the books that have been staring her down a little too intensely. As for me, I initially didn't think any of my books were intimidating, but upon closer inspection.... I was proved wrong.
Here are the prompts. I did not answer prompt 8, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist!
QUESTIONS:
1 - What book have you been unable to finish?
What book have you yet to read because...
2 - ...you just haven't had the time?
3 - ...it's a sequel?
4 - ...it's brand new?
5 - ...you read a book by the same author and didn't enjoy it?
6 - ...you're just not in the mood for it?
7 - ...it's humongous?
8 - ...because it was a cover buy that turned out to have poor reviews?
9 - What is the most intimidating book on your TBR pile?
I am tagging the following BookTubers
‪@RescuesandReads‬
‪@BookChatWithPat8668‬
‪@DezmondZ‬
‪@chrisreadingcorner3816‬
#books #booktube #fiction #frenchliterature #tbr #classics #classicliterature

[@noteworthyfiction]

Thanks for doing the tag and thanks for the very kind words. Stendhal is definitely haunting you with The Red and the Black! I can relate to your "what if I hate it?" fear. I have that feeling with Frances Burney, 18th century British Lit (my major) renowned female writer that I've never read.

[@chrisreadingcorner3816]

Hi Tristan I hope you’re well. I will be doing this on Tuesday wanted to think about the questions.

[@BookChatWithPat8668]

Hi Tristan. Thank you for the tag. I will be doing this one soon. I enjoyed hearing your answers to the prompts. I am very impressed that you are considering reading Les Miserables and The Red and The Black in French. (I do understand that your field is French literature, but still, very impressive....) I have read The Red and The Black in English--but that was a lifetime ago in graduate school. I just read Les Miserables for the first time ever last month in a group here on BookTube. It was a magnificent experience. Do you know about Classics and Company? You might like to participate in a group read. We read Middlemarch together and then Les Mis. I had read Middlemarch several times before, but it was still fun to read it again with a group, and reading Les Miserables with a group was magnificent. Forty plus years ago, I read Spanish literature in Spanish, and I can remember being very intimidated by the prospect of reading Cien Anos de Soledad by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Spanish, so I totally understand what you are talking about with Les Mis and Red and Black. Anyway, thank you for the tag. I will get to this soon.

[@Tristan-L-Space-Books]

I saw that you've talked about Les Mis a few times now and it's giving me a bit of the kick in the pants that I needed to move it up on my list. Stendhal might need to wait a bit more. I'll check out Classics and Company!

[@BookChatWithPat8668]

@@Tristan-L-Space-Books reading Les Mis was an incredible experience. I’m one of the few people who has never seen the movies or musicals, so I really didn’t know the story. I haven’t had an all-consuming reading experience like that since I was very young. It was wonderful. There was a Discord discussion which I didn’t really follow closely, but we also had a small group talking about the book on Voxer, and that discussion was exceptional. Are you a French teacher?