Max Havelaar

I decided to pick this up after I started reading the Buru Quartet by Pramoedya Ananta Toer. Minke (the main protagonist in the Buru Quartet) frequently mentions Max Havelaar and Multatuli, so I tried to read Max Havelaar to have a better understanding of the concepts discussed.

Unfortunately... the language felt so old and the storytelling was so strange, I really didn't understand why there had to be multiple layers of stores and found half of it uninteresting (and hard to read in general). I really wanted to read it all, but I just couldn't, and decided to stop half way. Reading the Wikipedia page is enough for me