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Which Books have you Failed to Finish?
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Marshy
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Honestly, i have ploughed on to finish every book I have started.... i alwys think just 30 more pages this has to improve etc...
My GOD i struggled with Life of Pi though... maybe as the OP said, i was just not in the right frame of mind
And although i had not seen the film at the time i read the book, my hopes were very high after everyone had raved about the film.
Anyway i was bloody delighted to finish it and start something else.
My GOD i struggled with Life of Pi though... maybe as the OP said, i was just not in the right frame of mind
And although i had not seen the film at the time i read the book, my hopes were very high after everyone had raved about the film.
Anyway i was bloody delighted to finish it and start something else.
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Loved "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" but the ending was crap, really weak, but that seems to be a commonly held opinion even by those who loved the book. From memory it was only about the last three pages so it didn't really matter. You of course were fortunate enough never to find out. Now you're probably thinking, "what, it got even worse than it was already?"
Taybha
Whalewhine
My Hustler .
hampshirebrightonboy
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- Sep 3, 2011
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This was the book that sprung to my mind when I read the thread title - gave up on it a few years back. Was it worth it when you managed to finish it?
Lincolnshire Seagull
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- Jul 9, 2009
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Was still quite hard going and I can't pretend I understood it all. But I'm glad i did it.
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Not a great writer, but his books are really easy to read because they are so unchallenging. Sometimes that has an appeal. I think I would struggle not to finish a Peter James book only for that reason. For some reason I'm unfamiliar with that particular title. I wonder why
Shropshire Seagull
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Shropshire Seagull
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Beat IR35
Working as a contractor for the government - hoping to remain as a limited company - when it became evident all public sector contractors were to be pushed in to IR35, I gave up reading it ....
Working as a contractor for the government - hoping to remain as a limited company - when it became evident all public sector contractors were to be pushed in to IR35, I gave up reading it ....
Pevenseagull
Anti-greed coalition
- Jul 20, 2003
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Publius Ovidius
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Too many to mention.
Whilst doing my classics degree I had to read many Greek and roman books and got into the habit of just reading what I needed to. Virgil's Aeneid is a good example as I knew what I had to know for an assignment I was doing and therefore skip read bits till I had what I needed.
On another tack, I have actually given up with peter James' books as stupidly I found them too close to home, in that as he described these horrible crimes, I could picture where exactly they were purpotred. I know that is the skill of the author, but I just found them uncomfortable to read. Daft I know!
Whilst doing my classics degree I had to read many Greek and roman books and got into the habit of just reading what I needed to. Virgil's Aeneid is a good example as I knew what I had to know for an assignment I was doing and therefore skip read bits till I had what I needed.
On another tack, I have actually given up with peter James' books as stupidly I found them too close to home, in that as he described these horrible crimes, I could picture where exactly they were purpotred. I know that is the skill of the author, but I just found them uncomfortable to read. Daft I know!
Barry Izbak
U.T.A.
I was given WHAT REMAINS by Tim Weaver
It looks just like the sort of thing I'd like
I tried to get in to it, but just couldn't get on with it and in the end, after about a quarter of the book, I gave in
Its in Barnardo's shop in George Street now if you fancy it
It looks just like the sort of thing I'd like
I tried to get in to it, but just couldn't get on with it and in the end, after about a quarter of the book, I gave in
Its in Barnardo's shop in George Street now if you fancy it
boik
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Lord of the Rings.
First Harry Potter.
Some East End gang family novel by a woman whose name I can't remember. It was almost so bad that it was funny. But not quite.
First Harry Potter.
Some East End gang family novel by a woman whose name I can't remember. It was almost so bad that it was funny. But not quite.
Raskolnikov
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Took this on holiday and got back last night. It was so dull, struggle to see how it won the Booker Prize.
I'd also like to add The Book of Daniel by Doctorow
Pogue Mahone
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- Apr 30, 2011
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American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis.
Pages and pages describing the main character's exercise routines and cosmetic applications, detailed descriptions of his restaurant visits and absolute consumerism, interspersed with savage and random acts of violence.
It wasn't the violence that made me stop, it was the utter tedium of everything surrounding it. An incredibly dull book.
Pages and pages describing the main character's exercise routines and cosmetic applications, detailed descriptions of his restaurant visits and absolute consumerism, interspersed with savage and random acts of violence.
It wasn't the violence that made me stop, it was the utter tedium of everything surrounding it. An incredibly dull book.
brakespear
Doctor Worm
'Lord of The Rings' because, despite introducing/popularising a lot of archetypes to general fantasy it is, unfortunately, thunderously tedious. Buy a Tad Williams book instead, save yourself 400 pages on what the landscape looked like that particular day.
It's a book about a wasteful bug with an eating disorder.
I don't see the point of reading past it taking a bite out of salami.
Superphil
Dismember
I never finished "Something Happened" by Joseph Heller, despite trying for about 5 years. Also a book by Philip Kerr about a future where pure blood is sold on the open market to the highest bidder as many people have poisoned blood, can't remember the name of the book, but it was blumming difficult to read.