What do you expect from a story that started out as a Twilight BDSM fic?
Books You Never Finished
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What do you expect from a story that started out as a Twilight BDSM fic?
Probe Droid
Master Member
It's a toughie for sure, but once you do figure out what's really going on you'll buzz right through it. Joyce had a very bawdy sense of humor (the book was banned for being obscene). The key to the the big U is it's one long dick joke. I'm not kidding.
Agreed, McCarthy's The Road stinks. His other books are vastly superior.
Mole
Well-Known Member
LOL! Yeah, I think that was part of the problem.
Twilight was hardly great literature to start off with. Not being a fan of sparkly vampires or BDSM didn't help either. And the fact that EL James pretty much just dropped fandom the second she got a publisher really rubbed me up the wrong way.
I read a lot of fanfic and there are some really good stories out there that will most people will never be aware of.
EyeofSauron
Master Member
honestly i have finished every book ive started. once i start, i cant not finish it without feeling of missing something.
that said, i only read books that im interested in. i would never start reading twilight for example.
that said, i only read books that im interested in. i would never start reading twilight for example.
shagger999uk
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Ulysses by James Joyce; dull, rambling twaddle. The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling - most disappointing book ever; I read over 200 pages and hated it. War and Peace - read the first book and never got round to the next two books.
With all the rave reviews the book got i had to stop and wonder if they read the same novel as me, apparently the movie is just as bad. Metro 2033 is on my to get list, a lot of folks don't like the game due to it's gameplay and not the story so much.
firesprite
Master Member
I tried watching The Road because I like Viggo Mortensen. I made it about 40 minutes and had to turn it off... It was the single most depressing frakking thing I've ever seen in my life. I was all 'What's the point of even trying if there's no hope?!'
Probe Droid
Master Member
McCarthy is dark. All the Pretty Horses (excellent) and the other books in the Border Trilogy aren't like his usual stuff, although they all don't have happy endings either.
If you think The Road was depressing try Child of God--YOWZA! I find his earlier books superior. I thought No Country for Old Men also was disappointing (but I did finish it). He borrows heavily from Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms.
If you think The Road was depressing try Child of God--YOWZA! I find his earlier books superior. I thought No Country for Old Men also was disappointing (but I did finish it). He borrows heavily from Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms.
The Schlitzie
Sr Member
The game was rubbish compared to the book as it left out everything that explained what was happening that made the book a good read. I enjoyed the game to a degree, but the painful realism of changing out breathing filters and such killed it for me. I don't know, as I get older I don't want to play survival games. They just stress me out, and life has plenty of stress without having to pay $60 to get it,hehe.
My wife tried to read one of the Tweenlight books but just couldn't do it. She described it I think as poorly written fanfiction.
My wife tried to read one of the Tweenlight books but just couldn't do it. She described it I think as poorly written fanfiction.
TheDoctor
Sr Member
Agreed! I did finish that one but I never figured out the point. Kind of like "The Great Gadsby" - It really wasn't all that interesting.
The one thing I'll give "Catcher" though: It did an excellent job of portraying mood.
TheDoctor
Sr Member
I haven't read Snow Crash (though it's on my list) or The Diamond Age (I'll have to check that one out).
Crypto is a hard one. If you don't like math or history it's going to be a non-starter. It also took a long time to "get going". I wanted there to be a "point" but it didn't start coming together until about a quarter of the way through the book. After I got about a quarter way into it, though, I didn't want to put it down. I got REALLY into it (though the ending still bothers me). It's a book that I only recommend to certain people that I know REALLY well.
TheDoctor
Sr Member
The Hobbit actually turned me completely off Fantasy novels. It took me a year to finish it because I was just so BORED by it. Given the time and the excitement level, I can turn a modest book (~300 pages) over in two days. Generally I try to take at least a month to finish a book. The Hobbit I kept picking up and putting down.
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever. (There are like a dozen of these cursed things, Google it if you're too young to remember but they were HUGE in the 70s.)
MOST UTTERLY ****ING FRUSTATING AND DEPRESSING GARBAGE I HAVE EVER READ. Uggh, still haven't got the bad taste out of my mouth.
All Joyce. Sorry, Colin D, but there you are...I'm an uncultured yob.
A good deal of Steinbeck. Had to read it for school...started...revolted. :lol
One 'Gor' novel my naive mum bought for me thinking 'ooo it's like Tolkien'. I got a few chapters in before tearing it to pieces so that at least there'd be one fewer copy in circulation. I think it was Carpetmenders of Gor, or maybe Plumbers And Allied Tradesmen of Gor, can't recall. :lol
MOST UTTERLY ****ING FRUSTATING AND DEPRESSING GARBAGE I HAVE EVER READ. Uggh, still haven't got the bad taste out of my mouth.
All Joyce. Sorry, Colin D, but there you are...I'm an uncultured yob.
A good deal of Steinbeck. Had to read it for school...started...revolted. :lol
One 'Gor' novel my naive mum bought for me thinking 'ooo it's like Tolkien'. I got a few chapters in before tearing it to pieces so that at least there'd be one fewer copy in circulation. I think it was Carpetmenders of Gor, or maybe Plumbers And Allied Tradesmen of Gor, can't recall. :lol
Aw, come onnnnnnnnn. I can see how it can feel dull, but I thought she did a bang-on job of making the natural perils they faced.
I tried reading Harlot's Ghost by Norman Mailer, once, while on a spy/cold war jag. Main reason I never finished it: winter break in another state and the library wouldn't let me keep it for a month!
Oneiros - YES. Le Guin's original three "Earthsea" books were intended for younger readers but what she actually managed there was to write for human readers, ones who appreciate a good story with great background detail and sympathetic characters, and don't especially want to be alienated by overblown, turgid prose.
I LOVE those books...and can't stand much of anything else she's written.
I LOVE those books...and can't stand much of anything else she's written.
Cadeus
Sr Member
The only book I started that I couldn't finish was The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty. What was Anne Rice thinking?!? It was, in my opinion, too vulgar. But I love the Vampire Chronicles... OH!!! I forgot. I couldn't finish the Harry Potter series, either. Love the story, love the movies; the books put me to sleep. 
firesprite
Master Member
My first time reading Cryptonomicon I got about 200 pages through and couldn't finish. Later I picked it up (I can't remember why, now, but I think I was at a hospital with family and it was the only thing in the car) and actually flew through it the second time. I recommend anyone pick it back up. It's actually great.
As far as not actually finishing: Texas by Michener and The Covenant by Michener. Come to think of it, I'm not sure I've ever finished anything by Michener. I didn't finish most of my law texts, either. Quite similar to Michener, infact-repetitive, meandering plot lines, and I fell asleep more than once in the middle of a chapter.
As far as not actually finishing: Texas by Michener and The Covenant by Michener. Come to think of it, I'm not sure I've ever finished anything by Michener. I didn't finish most of my law texts, either. Quite similar to Michener, infact-repetitive, meandering plot lines, and I fell asleep more than once in the middle of a chapter.
