Books you couldn't finish
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Eat, Pray, Love
I wanted to burn it. What an awful, boring book. Just effing travel and be happy. I cannot stand people who wallow. Anna Karenina I am going to go try and read this now. I put it down and never really felt like picking it up again, but I can read Bronte sisters on repeat... |
Anonymous
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I should have known better, but I tried reading a nonfiction book, "the battles of World War I: everything you need to know." I ended up reading this when I was trying to find the recent history of Israel and the Middle East. England essentially controlled the land that became Israel, so I was trying to find out how England got that land.
I ended up getting this book from the library. I learned that WWI was basically a bar fight, and everyone was just fighting each other to fight each other. I made it about 2/3 of the way through before I just couldn't read one more battle. "The next battle was in such-and-such town. 17,000 soldiers died from such-and-such country, and the other country gained 2 miles." I skimmed as much as I could, and I think England captured Jerusalem simply by physically advancing their military. |
Anonymous
It's worth it! And honestly I am planning to read it a second time one of these days. I feel like getting through it once to get the overview and sort of understand where it is all going will make it much easier and more satisfying the second time. Some people didn't like the ending but I actually think it explained enough. |
Anonymous
I agree. Very overrated. It felt so random. |
Anonymous
| I have been trying to read The Night Circus for months and just can't get into it. It feels like I have been reading forever and I'm not even halfway through. Does it get better? I feel like nothing is happening and I just keep waiting for it to improve..... |
Anonymous
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The Happiness Project. I found it trite and wanted to smack that Gretchen person for her smarny, self-satisfied, overacheiving, overprivileged point of view.
Middlemarch. I tried to read this in high school, again in college, and could never get past the first 100 pages. |
Anonymous
Ditto and I did buy all three of them. I ended up giving them to my 80 year old grandmother. She is really enjoying her "sex". 
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Anonymous
| It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton |
Anonymous
precious i never read or heard about and saw at the movies. god i wish i could unsee it. the lovely bone i could not get thru. also disturbing eat, pray, love did nothing for me. i made it to pray... |
Anonymous
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We Need to Talk About Kevin - hated the way the book was written - with a series of letters/diary entries. So slow and boring. I skimmed the last 1/2 of the book.
Similarly - Defending Jacob - long and slow. I read half, skipped entire chapters and still understood the whole storyline. Both were great for falling asleep. |
Anonymous
Eat Pray Love was terrible. I read 20 pages and was gagging. Never picked it up again. |
Anonymous
| Ulysses. |
Anonymous
+1000% What a piece of crap. Although this book (or the half that I read) gave me incredible hope. I think that if such a terribly written book could be such a success, I might still be able to strike it rich before my children are college age, after all. I'd just have to write about sex.
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Anonymous
Agree. A dear friend gave me that book and I just could not finish it. The author was so incredibly self-centered and determined to achieve her own happiness no matter that cost that I could not stomach it. |
Anonymous
| We Need to Talk About Kevin Seemed to have been written by two or three different authors. Just awful. |