Anonymous
Post 09/07/2014 23:38     Subject: Re:Books you couldn't finish
Life After Life - everyone loved it, but I couldn't digest it in the few minutes I have to read each night - maybe if I ever had hours to sit and read...
Anonymous
Post 09/07/2014 23:33     Subject: Re:Books you couldn't finish
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.
Anonymous
Post 09/07/2014 23:33     Subject: Books you couldn't finish
The Glass Bead Game. It was impossible. It was painful.
Anonymous
Post 09/07/2014 23:14     Subject: Books you couldn't finish
Anonymous wrote:Oh my.

Lovely Bones
Gone Girl
On the Road
Ulysses, sorry I even tried
Alexandria Quartet
Time Travelers Wife
Madame Bovary, hate the narrator too much
lots more
I could never be in a book group because I can never finish whatever everyone is excited about reading.

Me too.
Anonymous
Post 09/07/2014 23:09     Subject: Books you couldn't finish
Anonymous wrote:The English Patient.

Tried several times over several years. Even tried skipping around. Didn't work.

Finally made myself finish it a few years after I started. To this day, I can't really remember much of what this book is about. And I am the kind of reader who even got something out of Beowulf.

I imagine The English Patient is one of those rare books that the movie is so much better than the literature (not that I've seen the movie. The book was just too boring to entice me to see the movie).


Same here, and yes, you should see the movie when you're in the mood!
Anonymous
Post 09/07/2014 22:55     Subject: Re:Books you couldn't finish
Anonymous wrote:Fifty Shades of Grey. Really, so dumb, so poorly written and I was even at the beach when reading it. Skimmed through and put it down.


This, 1000 times. SO glad I didn't buy all three of them. I understand it was for entertainment purposes, but like you said, it was SO poorly written that I couldn't take it anymore. I can read better Mommy porn almost anywhere
Anonymous
Post 09/07/2014 22:53     Subject: Books you couldn't finish
Goldfinch. I have about 15 pages left and I just can't get myself to finish. That book needed some SERIOUS editing and paring down!
Anonymous
Post 09/07/2014 22:46     Subject: Books you couldn't finish
Life of Pi
Anonymous
Post 09/07/2014 22:45     Subject: Books you couldn't finish
Anonymous wrote:The Book Theif


I loved this book!
Anonymous
Post 09/07/2014 22:44     Subject: Books you couldn't finish
Oh my.

Lovely Bones
Gone Girl
On the Road
Ulysses, sorry I even tried
Alexandria Quartet
Time Travelers Wife
Madame Bovary, hate the narrator too much
lots more
I could never be in a book group because I can never finish whatever everyone is excited about reading.
Anonymous
Post 09/07/2014 22:23     Subject: Books you couldn't finish
Another vote against Eat Pray Love.
Anonymous
Post 09/07/2014 22:09     Subject: Books you couldn't finish
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:"Precious"--just reading the first few pages made me sick.

Along those lines…something like 'writing down the bones" about some girl killed in a cellar omg.

Tangent based on some PPs posts: I also did read The Goldfinch and at first, after the plot change, I was very excited to be reading it, but after a while when the protagonist was in las vegas i started to dislike the book. I did finish it but never regained my like of it.



The Lovely Bones was very hard to read.


OP here - I actually liked The Lovely Bones! And one of my all-time favorites, On The Road, has also been listed here. Interesting!
Anonymous
Post 09/07/2014 22:08     Subject: Books you couldn't finish
Anonymous wrote:I am such a loser that I cannot get into Jane Austen. I have tried every book but I just find her annoying. I read good literature, good fiction and non-fiction but Jane just doesn't do it for me.


Me too! I am embarrassed to be a grown woman that has never read all of Pride and Prejudice. It is just so stupid and wordy.

On the other hand, East of Eden is one of my all-time favorites.
Anonymous
Post 09/07/2014 22:07     Subject: Books you couldn't finish
Anonymous wrote:"Precious"--just reading the first few pages made me sick.

Along those lines…something like 'writing down the bones" about some girl killed in a cellar omg.

Tangent based on some PPs posts: I also did read The Goldfinch and at first, after the plot change, I was very excited to be reading it, but after a while when the protagonist was in las vegas i started to dislike the book. I did finish it but never regained my like of it.



The Lovely Bones was very hard to read.
Anonymous
Post 09/07/2014 22:01     Subject: Books you couldn't finish
Anonymous wrote:Gold finch



I forced myself to keep going b/c I thought it might get better. Nope!