books youve never finished

[chris.ph]

now weve all had a book weve picked up and had to put down for many reasons, the last one for me was nation, i know a lot of people enjoyed this book but thats the crux of it, some people might enjoy a book others wont finish it as they just cant get into it, wot book have you put down : : : : :

 

[SpideyGirl]

Nearly any Dickens book even though I rate him very highly, I just can't read them to the end

 

[author3]

I've recently put down Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer which is the third book in the Twilight Saga.The reason I put it down was because i was getting sick of Stephanie Meyer's writing style and i really hated the character of Edward Cullen so he also influenced me to put down the book.And another book I put down about 2 years ago was The Fellowship of the ring by J.R.R. Tolkien I think i put that one down because the writer described things too much so that in the end I couldn't get a good mental picture and because the book was pretty big and the print was tiny.

 

[SpideyGirl]

I've recently put down Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer which is the third book in the Twilight Saga.The reason ...

Cos its pants :twisted:

 

[author3]

I've recently put down Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer which is the third book in the Twilight Saga.The reason ...

Cos its pants :twisted:

No i honestly didn't think the series was too bad except for the characters :twisted:

 

[SpideyGirl]

 

[MongoGutman]

Children of Hurin by "Tolkein" i.e. C. Tolkein from notes left by J.R.R.

I've always thought it such a shame that Christopher didn't turn over his Dad's notes and unfinished manuscripts to some other writer; Feist, or Jordan perhaps.

 

[meerkat]

Poor Fellow My Country by Xavier Herbert. It's so big! I am right behind the Aborigines but when the White folk entered the story, I just didn't want to read about them. Perhaps one day.

The Samarilion by Tolkein. Just couldn't get on with it.

 

[Tonyblack]

I've tried to read Catch 22 by Joseph Heller twice and never finished it. Although I haven't tried again for about 30 years.

 

[Batty]

Don Quixote and The Diary of Anne Franks.

I may get it in the neck from certain people, but the diary was totally boring. If it wasn't for the subject matter, and the horrific events it portrayed, I doubt it would have been published.

As for Don Quixote, the book would have been a lot more interesting if he'd fallen off his donkey, got concussion and been confined to bed - where he subsequently spent his last few remaining days discerning patterns from the wallpaper, or flames from the fire.

 

[Tonyblack]

I once heard of a stage version of Anne Frank that was so bad that when the German guards came on stage, someone in the audience shouted "She's in the attic!"

 

[raptornx01]

most stephen King books. especially Insomnia. gah. the only one of his i finished was Cell. the movies, i love but the books......

 

[Dotsie]

I couldn't finish The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, it's an interesting story but Michael Chabon just goes into too much detail and I couldn't be bothered :|

I also put down Victoria Hislop's The Island after only 3 pages, because it was utterly dreadful. It was universally despised in my reading group

 

[Sjoerd3000]

I never finished Catch-22 and Anne Frank's diary too! May try Catch-22 again but Anne Frank's diary was really boring

 

[Catch-up]

Too many to even list! A few I remember, The Dome by Stephen King, Twilight, Eragon (I think that was the name of it), dozens of mysteries my mom has lent me, dozens of new books from the library that I just grabbed to try. If it doesn't hook me in the first few pages, it gets tossed aside.

 

[Sister Jennifer]

I once heard of a stage version of Anne Frank that was so bad that when the German guards came on stage, someone in the audience shouted "She's in the attic!"

That's so good. People are unforgiving aren't they? And funny.

The 5th book in the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. I think it was mainly that I'd started reading that series 15+ yrs ago and it was just too long between books. I'd forgotton bits and I just couldn't be bothered with it anymore.

Jane Eyre I tried reading mainly because of the references to it in Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series. I like the classics but I just couldn't get into it.

 

[Paranye]

Nobody seems to finish poor old Catch 22! I read it all and loved it, but I've always felt a little sorry for it as a book (if that makes any sense) because the very first line is the best. Talk about peaking early.

It's pretty rare that I don't read something all the way through, and usually it's because the book in question is some unutterable tat I've picked up by accident, but there have been a couple of notable exceptions.

One I remember well was Crime and Punishment, because I didn't just put it down and never get around to picking it up again - I slammed it closed about a third of the way in and thought "No power in the 'Verse could make me read another page of this." All the anguishing and angsting and sturming and dranging - Raskolnikov is the original emo. I have a pretty high tolerance for misery in books - heck, I loved Middlemarch, and that was a gloomfest if ever there was one - but there is a limit.

 

[deldaisy]

My favourite book of all time is one that I put down ten times (or more). It was so heavy, so boring.... but I kept picking it up every time I ran out of something to read and would have to start from the beginning again and again and it was still so boring..... then one night it just "clicked" and I have loved the book ever since. And reread a few times too.

Independant People by Halldor Laxness

It gives me hope that I may one day read Lord Of The Rings.... or something by Jane Eyre..... (sorry Jan).

 

[Quatermass]

or something by Jane Eyre..... (sorry Jan).

You mean by the Bronte sisters. Sorry, Del. You know I'm a pedant. Jane Eyre was a book by Charlott Bronte. :shifty:

God, I hated seeing what I did see of the miniseries versions, if only how utterly abysmally Jane is treated. :|

 

[Tonyblack]

Nobody seems to finish poor old Catch 22! I read it all and loved it, but I've always felt a little sorry for it as a book (if that makes any sense) because the very first line is the best. Talk about peaking early.

It's pretty rare that I don't read something all the way through, and usually it's because the book in question is some unutterable tat I've picked up by accident, but there have been a couple of notable exceptions.

One I remember well was Crime and Punishment, because I didn't just put it down and never get around to picking it up again - I slammed it closed about a third of the way in and thought "No power in the 'Verse could make me read another page of this." All the anguishing and angsting and sturming and dranging - Raskolnikov is the original emo. I have a pretty high tolerance for misery in books - heck, I loved Middlemarch, and that was a gloomfest if ever there was one - but there is a limit.

I had that problem with Crime and Punishment.

I think my problem with Catch 22 was that, as a young man, I was into war books at the time. Catch 22 is more of an anti-war book, which I suspech I'd appreciate now.