Books you couldn't finish

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen. I know everyone loved it, and I love other long, dense character studies like that, but I just couldn't get through it.

You did not miss anything. I think the trend is to write a book about people no reader will like or care about, to rave reviews.

I liked it.

[Anonymous]

Anna Karenina. Tried it in my 20s, stopped after 100 pages. Tried again in my 30s, made it probably 50 pages before the end, and just didn't care anymore.

Also The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver, although I'll try that one again.

[Anonymous]

10:41 here - I hit reply too soon, I meant to also say that I was thinking of the character in the Corrections when I read that Robin Williams had Parkinsons...that depiction of the disease really stayed with me.

It was, no doubt, hard to get though that book, though.

[Anonymous]

I finish almost every book I read. I forced myself through The Goldfinch and, wait for it, Ulysses.

I've only not finished a handful of books, and I can only remember ond of them: The Children's Book. Hated it with a burning passion.

[Anonymous]

Atonement. I couldn't get passed the first 50 pages or so. My MIL, who is an avid reader, also couldn't finish it. I liked the movie, though. Helps it had James Macavoy in it.

[Anonymous]

Poison wood Bible
Memories of a geisha

Both made me want to kill the characters in them.

[Anonymous]

Poison wood Bible
Memories of a geisha

Both made me want to kill the characters in them.

I LOVE both of these books!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I finish almost every book I read. I forced myself through The Goldfinch and, wait for it, Ulysses.

I've only not finished a handful of books, and I can only remember ond of them: The Children's Book. Hated it with a burning passion.

God, this book was *awful*. Like truly mind-numbingly awful. I plodded through, skimming at parts just to make it, because it was for a book club. Ugh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Poison wood Bible
Memories of a geisha

Both made me want to kill the characters in them.

I LOVE both of these books!

OMG, me too!! Loved them.

[Anonymous]

Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. I even tried to listen to it.

Turgid

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Anonymous wrote:The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

I gave up after 50 pages, but was later talking to my librarian about it and she said it doesn't get good until about page 75. And then it becomes her best novel yet. I haven't had a chance to try reading it again, but I do want to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I finish almost every book I read. I forced myself through The Goldfinch and, wait for it, Ulysses.

I've only not finished a handful of books, and I can only remember ond of them: The Children's Book. Hated it with a burning passion.

I am another person who will force myself to finish books. My only entry: The Long Night of White Chickens by Francisco Goldman.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am the only person in the world who could not finish "The Alchemist" by Paul Coelho.

I don't know what it was... all I remember is that it was so slow.

No, you aren't. I hated that book, too!
On the flip side, I loved "Anna Karenina". One of my all-time favorites.

[Anonymous]

The Goldfinch.

Martha Stewart was so right.

Boring.

Worst book ever.

[Anonymous]

Life After Life.

It messed with my internal desire to just move the f$#k forward