No point in forcing myself through this. It's just not clicking for me. I suspect I'd have liked this if I read it 15 or even 10 years ago when it was first recommended to me. Now I just can't empathize with the narrator, fall in love with the world or accept the way women are portrayed / treated in this book - in my opinion this book has not aged well.

Maybe I'll get back to this at a later point to finish it, just to have finished it but for now there's other books to read.