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10-ten-10 t1_iya7ycy wrote

Do you have a kind of relationship with your father that you can tell him that you'd find reading the book daunting?

Can you have a "meta" conversation with him about the book instead? -- make him talk to you about the writing process, his favourite part, the part he struggled the most with? I'm sure you can think of meaningful questions.

I guess what I mean is you can show your interest and appreciation in other ways than just reading the book.

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Rinoalbering OP t1_iyajwup wrote

>Can you have a "meta" conversation with him about the book instead?

We did, yeah. I know he doesn't expect me to read it, he told me so. The problem is that literally everyone else seems to think I should anyway.

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