books youve never finished

[Anonymous]

Twin-Pryx, by John asht.... I got curious about the book because of a tantrum the author threw when someone gave it a bad review. So i went and got it from the library (not buying books I know are effing bad) to see if it really is as bad.
What can I say?
It was much much much worse.
The reviewer that caused the author to throw a tantrum said she barely made it 90 pages for (the book has 900) and only on the second run. I didn't even made it 10 pages far....
Seriously, STAY AWAY from that book

 

[Paranye]

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.

I know just what you mean, I've had that happen to me before! Sometimes a book just comes along at the wrong time of your life.

That said, I've known plenty of people who are very into their anti-war literature who never took to Catch-22. I think Joseph Heller is literary Marmite

 

[Antiq]

Ghormenghast - Mervyn Peake. It's a difficult read, but I do really like it and I ought to just knuckle down and finish it I've hardly ever not finished a book, even if I didn't like it.

 

[pip]

Ghormenghast - Mervyn Peake. It's a difficult read, but I do really like it and I ought to just knuckle down and finish it I've hardly ever not finished a book, even if I didn't like it.

Finished it and its a long slog. Even managed to read the fourth part published last year as thrown together by his wife. Not as good as Mervyns on set as its missing the Artistic descriptions i love.
Tried to read AS Byatt The Childrens Book due to the nice cover catching my eye constantly. But it was just pretentious rubbish and i couldn't get into it.

 

[Antiq]

Ghormenghast - Mervyn Peake. It's a difficult read, but I do really like it and I ought to just knuckle down and finish it I've hardly ever not finished a book, even if I didn't like it.

Finished it and its a long slog. Even managed to read the fourth part published last year as thrown together by his wife. Not as good as Mervyns on set as its missing the Artistic descriptions i love.
Tried to read AS Byatt The Childrens Book due to the nice cover catching my eye constantly. But it was just pretentious rubbish and i couldn't get into it.

I adored the TV series, and I think that kinda makes the book easier to read.

 

[pip]

Ghormenghast - Mervyn Peake. It's a difficult read, but I do really like it and I ought to just knuckle down and finish it I've hardly ever not finished a book, even if I didn't like it.

Finished it and its a long slog. Even managed to read the fourth part published last year as thrown together by his wife. Not as good as Mervyns on set as its missing the Artistic descriptions i love.
Tried to read AS Byatt The Childrens Book due to the nice cover catching my eye constantly. But it was just pretentious rubbish and i couldn't get into it.

I adored the TV series, and I think that kinda makes the book easier to read.

It does but remember the series actually only covered the first two books . The third book will seem like a wild Tangent because of that. The third book becomes more Sci Fi than fantasy

 

[Antiq]

Ok, now I really do want to finish it.

 

[pip]

Its worth it

 

[stripy_tie]

The last third of "Slaughterhouse 5"; I just couldn't bear to read one more pretentious overwrought sentence. The main character's monologue was so pathetic, whiny and boring that it shared no resemblance with anything an actual human being might think or feel.

He has no desire or love for anything whatsoever, not his job, his wife and children, his own continued existence, nothing. The plot just skips left and right from the stupidly bizarre to the horrifyingly dull.

It's the only book I've ever failed to finish and I once made it all the way through a purported spy thriller that turned out to be almost entirely a detailed analysis of industrial economics in post WW2 East Germany.

That "Slaughterhouse 5" is even compared to works like Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet On the Western Front" makes me want to throw up.

 

[Bickaxe]

Red Rabbit by Tom Clancy
I think I just got bored of his stuff, never read any of it since, that was 10 years ago I think.

Ghosts of Sleath? By James Herbert
My dad has all of his books so i read a few, only got halfway through this before it was tidied onto the bookshelf and forgotten about. Not my thing anymore.

Have an originalish Robinson Crusoe text but the language is so different that I'm struggling to take it in as it doesn't flow right in my head. Will get there eventually though....maybe

 

[deldaisy]

I read the original Robinson Crusoe. Liked it... but as with all books I think sometimes they need to be read when they need to be read. I would never go back and reread some things I liked in my teens. And there are some things I would read now that I wouldnt have read then.

Bit like men really........ right book, wrong time.

 

[CrysaniaMajere]

I don't know if I've already said it, but I've tried to read Needful Things by Stephen King more than once, and never got through all of it. Last time I tried hard and read 216 pages out of 768... then I gave up. Thing is, the story is intriguing, this strange man selling "things that you need, that are precious to you", that other people would consider junk but for someone is worth doing anything in order to have it. But I find King's writing kind of boring

 

[ghostsecurity28]

Wintersmith is the first not finished that comes to my head.
non discworld Rebellion by james mcgee can't focus on reading at the moment

 

[raisindot]

The Bible. I guess I'm just not into religious fiction.

 

[raptornx01]

The Bible. I guess I'm just not into religious fiction.

Yeah, i prefer the tv version myself

 

[Catch-up]

I don't know if I've already said it, but I've tried to read Needful Things by Stephen King more than once, and never got through all of it. Last time I tried hard and read 216 pages out of 768... then I gave up. Thing is, the story is intriguing, this strange man selling "things that you need, that are precious to you", that other people would consider junk but for someone is worth doing anything in order to have it. But I find King's writing kind of boring

I got through that one, but I agree. He goes off on tangents that could be entire books themselves. It gets tiresome.

 

[Ziriath]

Don Quijote (I just couldn't read further about that hopeless guy)
John Irving:World according to Garp (maybe I just have to be a middle-aged guy to understand it?)
Remarque: Arch of Victory (It was the moment, when I realised all the Remarque books (except Am Westen Nichts Neues) are basically the same.
Some books from New weird edition (too much of unnecessary violence and sex) and some other fantasy and scifi books, their names I do not know in original (Mary-Sue phenomenon)
Lord of the Rings: I have bought all the trilogy, but I realised the style is very...indigestible and constructed. No wonder Terry makes fun of it.

 

[Paranye]

Don Quijote (I just couldn't read further about that hopeless guy)
John Irving:World according to Garp (maybe I just have to be a middle-aged guy to understand it?)
Remarque: Arch of Victory (It was the moment, when I realised all the Remarque books (except Am Westen Nichts Neues) are basically the same.
Some books from New weird edition (too much of unnecessary violence and sex) and some other fantasy and scifi books, their names I do not know in original (Mary-Sue phenomenon)
Lord of the Rings: I have bought all the trilogy, but I realised the style is very...indigestible and constructed. No wonder Terry makes fun of it.

I very nearly didn't finish Lord of the Rings myself; took me three tries. It's difficult and inaccessible. It makes the reader do all the hard work to connect with it. But when you do finally make that connection, it's absolutely worth it. It's a whole universe contained within a single text. That's what makes it so dense, if you know what I mean. I've read it eight times now and I still see new things every time. I think I could read it eighty times and my imagination would still have ample space to wander around all the gaps, all the people and events and places he could only briefly mention or hint at because he didn't have the room to expand on them. The only thing I can compare it to, in terms of scope and depth - and even that ponderous, majestic, beautiful, barely readable prose - would be the Bible (which I have read but wasn't as keen on; not enough battles with orcs).

 

[Willem]

would be the Bible (which I have read but wasn't as keen on; not enough battles with orcs).

 

[Quatermass]

The Bible. I guess I'm just not into religious fiction.

Yeah, i prefer the tv version myself

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