The DNF (Did Not Finish) Thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley (was charmed by another book but this one wasn't it for me)

Gentleman in Moscow (read after Rules of Civility which I loved)

Mary Jane (a book rec'd to me after I said I loved Daisy and the Six)

However, I do find that I have more patience listening to books than reading them. Especially non-fiction.

I’ve tried The Paris Apartment twice, but DNF. I tried Mary Jane, also DNF.

Don’t go back! I forced myself to finish The Paris Apartment…and I was furious how it ended.

The ending is par for the course for this weak novel. Felt like a C- final project for a college suspense-writing course.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Love Michael Chabon but have tried multiple times to read the Wonder Boys. Just can't do it. Tried to watch the movie just to find out the story, hated that too.

Oh no, I LOVED the Wonder Boys - book and movie! What didn't you like about it?

[Anonymous]

The Girl with the Louding Voice.
Just too traumatizing. We already know women are treated horribly in many parts of the world. And hard to read or listen too.

[Anonymous]

BearTown
A Man called Ov
House on Cerulean Sea

I hated all of these. Way too many pages to get even remotely interesting. Beartown is also a story that has been told a million times. Just because you say Hockey hockey hockey - doesn't make it new.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Midnight's Children. I really tried with that one.

Same here. It felt like torture. I am an intelligent, well-read person, but I just could not finish this.

Same - what a bore !

[Anonymous]

I DNF a lot today I'm giving up on "the good girl" I'm in over 100 pages it seemed like it was going good then just gave up. Also I don't like the back and forth in time and scenes which TONS of authors have been doing lately. I miss linear books. I'm so over the flashbacks and this type of writing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BearTown
A Man called Ov
House on Cerulean Sea

I hated all of these. Way too many pages to get even remotely interesting. Beartown is also a story that has been told a million times. Just because you say Hockey hockey hockey - doesn't make it new.

I liked a A Man called Ove. I couldn't get into beartown or anxious people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue was the first novel I haven’t been able to finish in years. It was just so slow and drawn out.

I hated Addie Larue so much even though parts of it have really stuck with me! I did finish but I was really tempted not to.

Same. I absolutely hated it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BearTown
A Man called Ov
House on Cerulean Sea

I hated all of these. Way too many pages to get even remotely interesting. Beartown is also a story that has been told a million times. Just because you say Hockey hockey hockey - doesn't make it new.

TJ Klune used the Sixties Scoop as the basis for House on the Cerulean Sea. I couldn't even pick it up when I heard that. Ick.

“I didn’t want to co-opt, you know, a history that wasn’t mine. I’m a cis white dude, so I can’t ever really go through something like what those children had to go through. So I sat down and I was like, I’m just going to write this as a fantasy.”

Didn't want to co-opt...but he does?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Barbarians Days

Same. Author was a misogynist. I hated how he talked about hooking up with the native women.

[Anonymous]

I posted this in the June "what are you reading" thread - latest DNF is Katie Gutierrez's More Than You'll Ever Know. The premise is interesting, but the characters are terrible and poorly written, particularly the crime blogger character who is incredibly immature and obnoxious. There are random Spanish phrases used haphazardly throughout the book that don't really add anything to the story. I don't have an issue with authors employing different languages in their writing; when it's done well, it can really enhance the narrative. But the author needs to put the phrase or word into the proper context, so non-speakers of the language can understand what s/he's trying to say. I shouldn't have to run every other sentence through Google Translate to get your point.

[Anonymous]

Literally every book by Emily Henry

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BearTown
A Man called Ov
House on Cerulean Sea

I hated all of these. Way too many pages to get even remotely interesting. Beartown is also a story that has been told a million times. Just because you say Hockey hockey hockey - doesn't make it new.

TJ Klune used the Sixties Scoop as the basis for House on the Cerulean Sea. I couldn't even pick it up when I heard that. Ick.

“I didn’t want to co-opt, you know, a history that wasn’t mine. I’m a cis white dude, so I can’t ever really go through something like what those children had to go through. So I sat down and I was like, I’m just going to write this as a fantasy.”

Didn't want to co-opt...but he does?

I don't think he is coopting that history by writing a completely different book

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BearTown
A Man called Ov
House on Cerulean Sea

I hated all of these. Way too many pages to get even remotely interesting. Beartown is also a story that has been told a million times. Just because you say Hockey hockey hockey - doesn't make it new.

I liked a A Man called Ove. I couldn't get into beartown or anxious people.

Totally agree. I adored A Man Called Ove but couldn’t get into Beartown and I gave up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I DNF all the time. I wish Goodreads had a way to track those books. I don't like that the only choices are to show us as Read or not on your shelf at all. I don't want them on my "Want to Read," so I leave them as Read. which messes up my Reading Challenge. #nerdproblems

I created a DNF shelf.

Me, too. You have to creat a certain type of new shelf (not a “tag” but one that lets it be the only one). It’s a necessary addition on goodreads!