wuher da brewer
Sr Member
Chapterhouse Dune - By this point in the story, there had been so much time separation from the original, that I kind of started to lose interest. Add to that, someone ruined the book before I even started it...
Books You Never Finished
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bodyhammer999
New Member
I have never finished American Gods or Trainspotting.gah!
Bizarro Lois
Sr Member
The only books I can think of that I stopped reading because I couldn't get into them were by Tom Robbins. I loved Jitterbug Perfume and Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, and I read a few others by him that were pretty good. However, I started Skinny Legs and All, and just couldn't get into it. A few years later, I picked up Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and hated it. I meant to finish it, but I got to the point that it felt like a chore. I didn't want to waste my time when I have so many other books. Maybe I've just changed so much that I'm no longer a fan. I have no desire to read anything else by Robbins, at least for a long time.
Cryptonomicon was difficult for me but I flew threw the Baroque Cycle.
Melville is great! I read Moby Dick in college lit and enjoyed how upset my very feminist professor would get at the mere mention of his name. She hated him. In fact, I may have enjoyed her reactions more than the actual novel. :lol
Monster Dave
Sr Member
The Never Ending Story...but I'm trying!! LOL!!
Zombie_61
Master Member
Well played, good Sir!
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firesprite
Master Member
I kind of feel the same way about Stephen King. From about my mid-teens until about 12 years ago, he was my favorite author and I'd pick up anything he wrote to read it. Lately though... I dunno. I have a hard time getting excited about his stuff. The last book from him that I really loved was Duma Key (I read Under the Dome and Lisey's Story and felt they were just... bleh).
Unfortunately, I feel like I've outgrown Steve, to a degree. I still love the Dark Tower books and the Stand, but I don't feel that sense of anticipation that I used to when I'd hear about a new book coming out.
Harry Potter, Splinter Cell and Lord Of The rings.I read 3 harry potter books but the 4th one is boring.For Splinter Cell, I dropped the book in water so I lost like 50 pages and the book isnt fun anymore.Lord of the rings is just too boring.Read 100 pages and nothing happened yet
Lflank
Well-Known Member
They hide it well. I make my living as a book publisher, and with 99.999% of all the fan fiction I've read, it's not hard to see why it's on someone's website instead of on a bookshelf somewhere.
It's nearly all drek. Half of it is simply illiterate.
Sparticle
Well-Known Member
I've read everything by Anne Rice (even the Sleeping Beauty Trilogy) EXCEPT the 'Mayfair Witches' series: deadly dull. The only book I've never finished is 'Feast of All-Saints' because by the middle of the story NOTHING (and I mean NOTHING) had happened. Ayn Rand was exciting compared to those two stories! (Yes, I've read most of Ayn Rand's books).
heiro5
Active Member
Haha, this thread is full of books I love.
But I'm a compulsive completist, so I've also finished almost every book I've ever started and hated quite a few. To those who say, "Life's too short," I envy you, you're doing it right.
The couple of books I can actually remember walking away from:
Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. I think I committed myself to 100 pages and then decided it was enough after 75.
Mark Danielewski's Only Revolutions. Hated it. I guess the moral is that experimental fiction isn't really for me.
I do love me a good story, so I don't usually enjoy a bunch of f'ing around that feels self-indulgent. That said, I loved his House of Leaves, but it has a pretty taut spook house story embedded in its core, and I had fun with the layout shenanigans.
But I'm a compulsive completist, so I've also finished almost every book I've ever started and hated quite a few. To those who say, "Life's too short," I envy you, you're doing it right.
The couple of books I can actually remember walking away from:
Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. I think I committed myself to 100 pages and then decided it was enough after 75.
Mark Danielewski's Only Revolutions. Hated it. I guess the moral is that experimental fiction isn't really for me.
I do love me a good story, so I don't usually enjoy a bunch of f'ing around that feels self-indulgent. That said, I loved his House of Leaves, but it has a pretty taut spook house story embedded in its core, and I had fun with the layout shenanigans.
Lutso
Sr Member
There's a couple that I can't think of right now, but because someone else mentioned it, as far as Star Wars goes...
I got two books into the Legacy of the Force series and quit. I don't really remember why, because I recalled liking what I read and I know the series is a good one overall.
Republic Commando. It's just so far-fetched and overbearing. Plus I started out liking Karen Traviss because she was innovative or whatever, but now I look back on it and I wish she would have just left well enough alone. The Mandalorians were much better off before she came along and demystified everything about them and gave them color-coded armor.
I got two books into the Legacy of the Force series and quit. I don't really remember why, because I recalled liking what I read and I know the series is a good one overall.
Republic Commando. It's just so far-fetched and overbearing. Plus I started out liking Karen Traviss because she was innovative or whatever, but now I look back on it and I wish she would have just left well enough alone. The Mandalorians were much better off before she came along and demystified everything about them and gave them color-coded armor.
Catch 22. I just could not get into the characters. I think I got to the part where he was complaining about the other patients in the hospital and never picked it back up. My place is a bit of a mess and I have started cleaning up, so if I stumble across it maybe I will give it another try.
wuher da brewer
Sr Member
I read every Star Wars book ever published, and at the time I was reading them, went through one a day. Eventually, I got caught up, and that might have had something to do with feigning interest, but I believe it had more to do with that dreadful series set after the Yuzzhan Vong/New Jedi Order where the kids from the Young Jedi Knights books are in league with some telepathic ant like hive insect. I got 1 and 1/3 books into the series and I had to chuck 'em.
In all the Star Was books I've read, there were a few that were truly dreadful, but the majority of them were stand alone books. This series was the first series I ever couldn't make it through. I just looked it up, it was called The Dark Nest Trilogy.
In all the Star Was books I've read, there were a few that were truly dreadful, but the majority of them were stand alone books. This series was the first series I ever couldn't make it through. I just looked it up, it was called The Dark Nest Trilogy.
TheLibrarian
Member
blasphemy, i've read that book 3 times, and each time it brings something different
Probe Droid
Master Member
Gertrude Stein's Paris France. Just started this thing and already have had it after 20+ pages. She's so full of *****. I'd like to pull a Midnight in Paris and go back and hit her in the face with a pie then have drinks at the Select with Hemingway.
Tatooine_Todd
Sr Member
I love the Silmarillion, while I agree it is a difficult read at first, however, once you get into the style it flows. I will say it is a very depressing, dark book.
I try to read the LOTR once a year, they are amazing.
I am currently reading a Star Wars EU novel, Tales of the Bounty Hunters and find it rather boring and I'm only in the first story about IG-88. I may walk away from it soon.
