The DNF (Did Not Finish) Thread

[Anonymous]

Confederacy of the Dunces
The Hobbit

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am about to quit Thus Was Adonis Murdered. The language is WAY too dense and hard to follow. I get enough of that in my day job (technical editor).

Interesting I “read” it as an audiobook and loved it but occurred to me it might be a slog to read on paper.

Different poster, but I just returned the audiobook yesterday because I could not get into it.

[Anonymous]

Rebecca Makkai’s latest- I Have Some Questions For You

Super disappointed!

[Anonymous]

Gentleman in Moscow. I tried three times!

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Anonymous wrote:A comment on another thread where someone said they read over half a book before they could get into it had me wondering:

Do you DNF?
How early have you DNFed?
How far have you gotten and bailed?
What are some of your DNF books?

Yes -
15 pages in
approx 400 pages in (looking at you FALL or Dodge in Hell - massive fail on my part or the author's - can't begin to sort out which)

Demon Copperhead
The Three-Body Problem
Great Circle
Future of Another Timeline
Bastard of Istanbul
Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu
Braiding Sweetgrass

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Anonymous wrote:Crying in H Mart
The Seven Husbands of I forget the rest of the title
A Gentleman in Moscow
Caste

I really liked Seven Husbands. I finished Crying in H Mart - but I wanted it to be better or more than it was - so I am kind of sorry I did finish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bible. Made 1/2 page of pg1

I started reading and I made it through one of the Gospels - and then 1/2 way through another and gave up - just too unrealistic.

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Anonymous wrote:How can I be the first person here to say Infinite Jest!?

Because most people don't pick it up in the first place. - No way, no how. I read a paragraph and put it back down.

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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 finished it - but I agree - oh my goodness, did it take a long time to wrap up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A comment on another thread where someone said they read over half a book before they could get into it had me wondering:

Do you DNF?
How early have you DNFed?
How far have you gotten and bailed?
What are some of your DNF books?

I almost never quit a book, but I recently had to.
I read 2/3 of it to my kids, about 200 pages.
It was I, Robot by Isaac Asimov. Great idea, very creative, but too much dialogue and sexism. I read the part about Dr. Calvin being hysterical and told my kids I was done. They were fine wiith it because the back and forth was annoying and hard to follow.

I quit Foundation by Asimov for similar reasons. Brilliant guy, but it's all so slow and plodding. And the sexism/lack of female characters really made you feel the age of the books.

I am enjoying the Foundation series on Apple TV though.

- not to get off-track - but - I read the first one and finished but the lack of good female characters made me not want to continue - it is definitely a foundational work for scifi for today but todays work is much more accessible - is the TV series that much better?

[Anonymous]

Every Coleen Hoover Book. Man they are dumb.

[Anonymous]

I could not get through any of the BearTown. It was like a book I read in early middle school and the writing was very immature.

[Anonymous]

The Goldfinch.

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Anonymous wrote:I could not get through any of the BearTown. It was like a book I read in early middle school and the writing was very immature.

I agree with this one

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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 finished it - but I agree - oh my goodness, did it take a long time to wrap up.

I loved the writing of Addie LaRue, but kept thinking about how small her life was. There was a little mention of her possibly being a spy during WW2, but other than that, it seems just just wandered around France, England, and the US? If you had hundreds of years, wouldn't you have explored a bit more? Done some more things?