Book you never finished

mansu · Post by **mansu** » 28 Jun 2013, 13:08

there's just one book that i started reading but it was so damn annoying & repetitive i just couldn't continue reading!

it's "The One Minute Manager" by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson.
i read one-third of it & then, deleted it. i took it up in the first place bcoz i thought it would be a self-help & motivational kind of book, but i was disappointed.

MandiKenendy · Post by **MandiKenendy** » 28 Jun 2013, 15:23

I once read the historian as part of a book club and when we met to discuss it no one had been able to finish it. Not even the person who suggested it!

SmileyC · Post by **SmileyC** » 28 Jun 2013, 16:31

Frankenstien. Had to read it at college but just couldn't get in to it at all.

mansu · Post by **mansu** » 02 Jul 2013, 00:55

mansu wrote:there's just one book that i started reading but it was so damn annoying & repetitive i just couldn't continue reading!
it's "The One Minute Manager" by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson.
i read one-third of it & then, deleted it. i took it up in the first place bcoz i thought it would be a self-help & motivational kind of book, but i was disappointed.

add to the list "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell.. it dragged on & on & on.. i stopped reading it yesterday after having gone through 2/3rd of the novel.

pri012345 · Post by **pri012345** » 02 Jul 2013, 02:08

The Da Vinci Code ,i started the book but couldn't finish it ,i watched the movie !!:P

Evilplaidkitten · Post by **Evilplaidkitten** » 02 Jul 2013, 06:55

I could not get past the first few pages of Push by Sapphire. It wasn't the content but the writing style.

Njanosik · Post by **Njanosik** » 04 Jul 2013, 21:05

Wuthering Heights- Probably the only book that I didn't finish and I mostly enjoy books written in the 17-1800's. If I am having a hard time getting interested in a book especially a 'classics' I read a few of the Spark Notes chapter summaries or character analysis. I am now reading Vanity Fair and have used spark Notes to help me remember the characters. It helped with War and Peace too.

Happy reading.

Circling Turtle · Post by **Circling Turtle** » 06 Jul 2013, 09:28

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein. I enjoyed the book and have started it several times, but each time I am interrupted about fifty pages before the end ofThe Return of the King... the first time we moved house and left the book behind, the second time it was lost in a fire (I am not even joking) and the third time a friend "borrowed" the book without my permission. I am beginning to sense a conspiracy.

The Fires of Heaven, Book Five in The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan, is another book that fate snatched away from me. I searched for the book for three years before finally finding it a small town library. Two days later I was mugged. All I had in my bag was the book and my ID. Bad luck! And a huge library fine for me...

fitzml · Post by **fitzml** » 06 Jul 2013, 19:52

The Stand by Stephen King. It was just so, so-o-o long! But I absolutely loved the movie.

Caitlin Eliza · Post by **Caitlin Eliza** » 07 Jul 2013, 21:40

Don Quixote - Despite it's status (in the eyes of some) as the greatest book ever written, I just couldn't do it. In my opinion, it is a 900 page book without a plot. I read Part 1, and the first and last chapters of Part 2, and I knew just as much about the story as the few friends of mine who read the entire thing (it was a summer reading assignment one year). Maybe the lack of plot was made up for by some beauty in the original written language (Spanish), but whatever it was, it was lost in translation.

TeeW · Post by **TeeW** » 27 Jul 2013, 17:21

I've tried, several times, to read "A House Divided" by Ben Ames Williams. The problem is not in the prose, nor in the plot, but the sheer size and weight of the book. If you're like me, and are attracted to huge tomes, this one is the ultimate!

faceman3535 · Post by **faceman3535** » 27 Jul 2013, 17:33

Dante's Inferno, Had to read it in high school and was assign only one level to read. Maybe I will pick it up again and read the whole book.

mandypanda · Post by **mandypanda** » 27 Jul 2013, 23:51

When I was in middle school, I tried reading Gone With The Wind. I got through like 2/3 of it and just found Scarlett way too whiny and annoying!

showaa_feesh · Post by **showaa_feesh** » 28 Jul 2013, 02:05

Brookland Bridge by Emily Barton. I'm somewhat ashamed of not finishing it and I can't remember what kept me from seeing it through. Probably had something to do with library fines. I don't remember. What I do remember is loving the story--it's probably one of the few books from more than five years (?) ago whose plot I can still remember, whose sentences I can still taste, whose flavor is completely New York, completely wonderful.

Really makes me feel like a butthead for not finishing it.

That's probably why: I don't like to remember how I "failed" the author for not reading it completely, or maybe how I "failed" myself by not picking it up again.

Dramatic? Hells yeah. What? I was like, fifteen? sixteen? at the time? Yeah. I should probably go check it out again.

TD Matzenik · Post by **TD Matzenik** » 28 Jul 2013, 02:49

I suppose there are many reasons for never finishing a book. The worst reason for me is when the author breaks his/her own spell. Recently, I tried to read Cloud Atlas, but several points led me to believe the author had very little insight into life at sea in the 19th century. I found the same problem with Jack London's The Sea Wolf and I do not know why a man of his experience would have made such glaring errors. James A. Michener used to drop some awful clangers also.