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Originally Posted by psichick
Haha. I didn't quite finish it. I tried, just couldn't do it. Someone finally had to tell me the ending.
its quite terrible.. a pathetic abusive relationships masqueraded as BDSM and most of the plot structure stolen from Twilight, how Stephenie Meyer didn't sue her I have no clue
omg, me too. Of course, I'm sure we forget most of the books we start and don't finish, because, afterall, if they were memorable we would have finished them.
But I remember being very disappointed in Black Swan Green, which got a bit of hype. I wouldnt have remembered it on my own.
Tried and tried to read the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. And I am a fantasy fan.
Another book I know I tried to read but just could not: Twilight. My daughter read them all, and we've always shared favorites in the past, but I couldn't get past a certain point in the book...which coincidentally is the same point in the movie where I find myself wandering off....
AND I could not read One Hundred Years of Solitude even tho it was my college best friend's favorite.
AND i found JK Rowling's new book completely intolerable even though I acknowledged from the start that it would not be harry Potter and I generally like British stories.
I very rarely leave a book unfinished......no matter how bad. That being said; I Tried and Tried to make it through "The Shack" by Young and failed dismally.
I very rarely leave a book unfinished......no matter how bad. That being said; I Tried and Tried to make it through "The Shack" by Young and failed dismally.
I tried 3 times but I didn't get past page 10 or so. I wasn't/am not even sure what it was meant to be about. The words all turned to gibberish before my eyes no matter how many times I reread pages. And I didn't understand the description in the book jacket either. Methinks I am not meant to read it.
Other than that, there were quite a few Stephen King books I didn't finish. I think mostly I don't recall all the books I couldn't finish but King sticks out in my memory because I had liked his earlier work, and The Shack sticks out because I've never before had that sensation of words swimming before my eyes to the point where I can't tell what's going on.
I don't think I ever finished 10,000 leagues under the sea.
Obviously. There were 10,000 more Leagues. I think I read that when I was about ten.
I quit last night reading Nenni Holmqvist's "The Unit". "And then I went to lunch, and there was (insert menu here). And then walked in the garden and saw (insert bird species list here),"
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Originally Posted by chilaili
Black Swan Green
Me neither. I bet you got farther than I did.
I wish I hadn't finished "Lonesome Dove". The second half read like he got bored and turned it over to a class of undergrads to finish for him. I wasted about 300 pages of reading.
Oh, and Alexie's "Part time Indian". After about 3 pages, I glanced ahead, and al the way through the book, almost every sentence stated with "I mean" or "Yep" or "And then" or "Really". Reading it was like going on a long car trip with a bored ten-year-old telling me a story that he hadn't thought through in advance..
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