There are a few books i have never finished the only thing is i can't remeber the titles, like one day i was looking for a book to read i picked up this booked payed for it and started reading, i requernised some plots and charecters in the book but i carryed on reading it and do you know what? Itturned out to be one of the best books i have read. Has anyone else done this?
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Books you didn't finish
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Ronny
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At the beginning, he talks of his Mother's cancer in a lot of detail and it would not of been too bad but I often read while eating and this was not a good mix. Maybe I could picture it too vividly as I was just visiting with my own Grandmother and she has lung cancer.
Ronny
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Common with many others I find it difficult to not finish a book even if it is dire. Definitiely should start up that support group there's too many of us. There are so many good books out there I know I should be more ruthless with the dross but ....
Anyway last book i didn't finish - something by James Lee Burke I picked up a couple of years ago. Just couldn't get on with it.
Anyway last book i didn't finish - something by James Lee Burke I picked up a couple of years ago. Just couldn't get on with it.
Scriblerus
New Member
Hi all,
After finishing the brilliant 'Birdsong' by Sebastian Faulks, I was really looking forward to 'Charlotte Gray' and then 'Human Traces'. I couldn't finish either of them, both abandoned in disappointed frustration after 80-100 pages. Maybe he's just a one-novel writer?
After finishing the brilliant 'Birdsong' by Sebastian Faulks, I was really looking forward to 'Charlotte Gray' and then 'Human Traces'. I couldn't finish either of them, both abandoned in disappointed frustration after 80-100 pages. Maybe he's just a one-novel writer?
Scriblerus
New Member
Hi all,
I had to give up on Peter Carey's 'Oscar and Lucinda'. I couldn't bear the cloying religiousity or the prose stylings. I also struggled to feel anything for the characters. I found it very overwritten. Though I understand both it and its author have many admirers, I'm afraid I am not among them.
I had to give up on Peter Carey's 'Oscar and Lucinda'. I couldn't bear the cloying religiousity or the prose stylings. I also struggled to feel anything for the characters. I found it very overwritten. Though I understand both it and its author have many admirers, I'm afraid I am not among them.
I can see why you didn't finish Human Traces after reading Birdsong, this one's harder going and grimmer - also a lot of digression into medecine / pyschology. I'm about 150 in - will keep going and see if I reach the summit.
ions
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The only book I've started that I haven't finished is Moby Dick. That was around 15 years ago and I will give it another shot one day. I had almost stopped reading The Great Gatsby but I'm glad I finished just for the sake of finishing and for the ending. It was easily the best part of the book. I stopped reading Return of the King when I did my first read of LOTR. Too much to read in series really, although I did manage a reread of the books in series. I will never bother again. I almost stopped A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The stream of consciousness style was difficult for me at first. I adapted and ended up enjoying the work very much.
Moby Dick remains my only white whale. It's probably not the best behaviour but if I don't feel like finishing a book I just read less. I won't pick it up to read and when I do I don't read long. I also don't pick anything else up because if I do it means I'll never finish the other book I started. I'm currently encountering this with The Odyssey. While it's a great story, I already know the story. There's no intrigue. It's also a book that's not doing a whole lot for me right now. Just not what I want to be reading. But knowing myself if I stop I won't ever finish it. I don't want another white whale.
Moby Dick remains my only white whale. It's probably not the best behaviour but if I don't feel like finishing a book I just read less. I won't pick it up to read and when I do I don't read long. I also don't pick anything else up because if I do it means I'll never finish the other book I started. I'm currently encountering this with The Odyssey. While it's a great story, I already know the story. There's no intrigue. It's also a book that's not doing a whole lot for me right now. Just not what I want to be reading. But knowing myself if I stop I won't ever finish it. I don't want another white whale.
Mattyj
New Member
My apologies for the delay in responding. To me, the book tried to hard to be clever, and failed. I didn't find it entertaining, just full of really obnoxious self indulgent rambling. A lot of people found it to be a great follow-up to Postcards from the Edge, it just wasn't for me.
I have that problem even with books I like
abecedarian
Well-Known Member
Just last week I put The Hunchback of Notre Dame away. I just couldn't get into the story at all.
ewarwoowar
New Member
Haunted : Chuck Palahniuk
I like to think I've got a pretty open mind and am not too easily shocked. This book was just plain gross. Gave up after about 3 chapters, not a pleasant read, just shock-fest. more Chuck yee-uk than Chuck Palahniuk.
I like to think I've got a pretty open mind and am not too easily shocked. This book was just plain gross. Gave up after about 3 chapters, not a pleasant read, just shock-fest. more Chuck yee-uk than Chuck Palahniuk.
Ronny
Well-Known Member
I've heard that before about this one and I'm thinking I'll move it way down to the bottom of my tbr shelf now.