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I've finished all my books up to this point except my history textbook x3 I was studying for an exam that was today ^^ i did fairly well even so.
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I can't be not finishing a book. I always read it to the end. Sometimes it takes like a year but I always finish one I've started.
It does happen that I start a book, then forget it and finish it like a year after. |
The second Lord of the Rings book and the Hobbit come to mind. I hate battles so that's why. Lots of fanfiction, though that doesn't really count. Wuthering Hights and a few other books that I had to read for english.
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I haven't been able to finish IT by Stephen King. I got bored by page 300 because nothing was happening and it had began to scare me, so I set it aside and forgot about it. I'll pick it up again someday but for now it's forgotten. I tried reading Eragon but couldn't get past the first 50 pages.
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1984-i pretty much know the ending because of my class, but it's soooo good i keep picking it back up.
Che-i never have time to read it the alphabet of manliness- it just got stupid after a while |
i have started and restarted 'love in the time of cholera' so many times i can't even count... something about that first bit of it, just doesn't keep my interest... i wish it id because i know it's a classic read... and i have heard that the beginning is somewhat dry and the last half is much much better, but i just can't make it that far....
i felt that way about 'pride and prejudice' too, but when i finally made myself read it, i found that i really liked it and it is now one of my favorite reads... |
Jane Eyre, Jane Eyre oh and er... Jane Eyre. I fought and I fought to try and get through that. I just wanted to BURN IT. Maybe I was just in a bad mood already... Another one is the first of the Lord of The Rings (I'm quite ashamed of this one). I am really sure that I could finish it if I gave it another shot but at the time I just couldn't take another second of their damned journey.
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Ive never been able to finish Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy. It was interesting at the start, then it just slowed down so much I had to find something else or I would have fallen asleep trying to read it. Then again, I could use it to fall asleep on those nights where I cant sleep...hmm...ideas forming.
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I have never finished Eldest, in the Inheritance trilogy. I feel bad, b/c I loved the first book, Eragon. It's just when I saw them butcher that movie, I lost all interest all together. Maybe one of these days I'll get back into it. I'm so close to finishing it, and my mom bought be Brisingr for Christmas when it first came out, so I feel bad. Maybe if someone PM's me about how good it is, I may get the motivation to finish it ^_^
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Eldest. I just couldn't get into it. I'm not even sure I could read Eragon again.
I can't really recall any other books I couldn't finish. I usually finish everything I read. |
Memoirs of a Geisha. The story just becomes very dull during the war part so I couldn't get myself to finish it, I tried hard though. :(
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Anna Karena.
It just seemed so boring, and it was long as shit. and other 384091840931 page book i could finish, but not that damn thing. |
Wow there are just a couple of books I haven't been able to finish I try to read little by little but eventually I put them down and never pick them up again. I will only talk about the two that are just driving me crazy cause I just cant get done with them.
Now first the current one I keep putting down is the Portable Dorthy Parker by well Dorthy Parker, now it does have it's moments that are really good to read but once I hit the poem section is where I stopped and I keep trying but never seem to ever finish. Prior to that book was Madame Bovary by Gustave Flavbert I can't seem to get past part one I was reading it one day and by the time I got to a certain part I was like it is very boring to me and I find that interesting cause if you notice I love reading classic books and long books but I think once you have read so many classics eventually you get tired of them and need a break from them, so thats what happen I figured I take a break read something else and I never seemed to go back and try to finish. I hope my professors assign those to read cause if they do I will have no choice but to finish them, I think when my G.P.A is on the line I will so get back to reading and be done with them, I'm not sure I can ever reread them. |
I couldn't get through any of my assigned books during sophomore year of high school. I can't remember them all but these are some of them.
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Walden The Armies of Darkness by Norman Mailer Billy Budd |
"The Complete Head Banging History of Heavy Metal". I love heavy metal music. When I found this book I was completely intrigued. Though as I got into it my interest lessened and lessened. I believe this to be because of the dull word choice and the lack of action. I guess I should not expect history books to be lively, but the author should give some attempt at voice. Besides, if I wanted to read a 600 paged rant about Black Sabbath I would have gone else were. ( Not that I do not love Sabbath, but come on!!!)
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You know, sadly I could never finish the Fellowship of the Rings. I got to the part where the hobbits had just parted ways with Tom Bombadil, it really felt like the story was dragging imo. The LotR books are thick, but really that's because Tolkien spends a lot of time describing the scenery. The hills are pretty... the grass is nice... I get it, can we move on?
I really do want to finish it someday though. |
Gawd, Started all of the Harry Potter books, never finished any of them. And Miley Cyrus Miles to go. Little wingy girl, saying her life is horrible. Yeah, your rich you get what you want.
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I generally finish every book I read, long or short, but a few just don't really hold my interest for long.
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk- it deals with some pretty heavy stuff. It's off-putting sometimes, but I get through a little now and then. I'll tell you, this guy isn't shy at all... March by Geraldine Brooks- the first two books I read by her were so compelling, but this one lacks something. I'll finish it someday... IT by Stephen King- It's just so long... like, what five different character backgrounds... I'll probably try to finish it again too. |
The Illuminator's Daughter. I figured out how it was going to end half way through and couldn't stand to keep going with it.
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I tried to read an Agatha Christie novel once 'cause my mum has so many of them, but I got to half way through the book, th emurder still hadn't happened, and I just gave up. :XD
I started Crime and Punishment a while ago too, and I was really enjoying it, but I got all busy and never managed to find the time to read it. :( I'll get back to it though sometime! A more recent example is Dorian Grey, I came very very close to the end but I got to this awfully long passage with a whole load of droning descriptive lists and I lost interest for a bit, when I get back to it I think I'll skip the rest. :lol: It's not important, I know! |
twilight. i got bored about halfway through. i just.. stopped enjoying reading it.
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For some reason I couldn't get through Alice in Wonderland.
The same thing goes for Black Beauty, and most Nancy Drew books. Also I tried to read The Silmarilian, but it was just to hard, like 20 times worse than reading Shakespear. |
I couldn't bring myself to get past that first page on the book "Treasure Planet." I tried...I really did, but it was sooo BORING! D 'x |
The Twilight Series I dropped it after Eclipse, which I so wanted to drop after a certain point. There were a lot of factors that made me drop the book, and a lot of ones I didn't realize until I heard complaints from other people. It truly was a poorly written series, and made vampires look bad. Especially the whole sparking vampires, I never could quite get use to that part.
I also thought of another book I couldn't finish. It was called Upon A Moonless Night by Dai Sijie. I thought it was going to be a adventure. However it was recollection of the past, and not a very good one in my opinion. Though I hoped it'd get better, it didn't so I had to put it away. Resurrection Men by T.K. Welsh: It was set in Victorian London, a sure way to get me to ready any book is to have it set in this time frame. Plus it was about body snatchers, who would dig up corpses to sell to medical students. It first started out to look promising, yet the author focused more on description and not on the plot. The characters were hardly developed in the least, half way in I just had to quit. I love description but too much of it can be a bad thing, as it can be with not enough. The Haunting of Alazabiel Cray by Chris Wooding: Yet again this is set in Victorian London, about a boy who is a wych hunter, monsters who prey on the living. It started out great just like RM, the description was on par then like the above book, it just came to be too much. Characters were all over the place, being told in several different point of views, I couldn't tell where any of it was going. So I had to reluctantly drop it, despite not wanting to. |
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