Books you couldn't bear to finish.

[Lament Du Lamia]

I checked, and i dont think theres a thread for this already. If there is, i accept the brutal consequences of my actions.

The question is, what books - if any - were so dull and boring to you, that you couldnt bare to go on.

I know i didnt even get half way through catch-22. -_- geez.

[hodor]

I cant believe you said that. I was rocked by Catch-22. For me it was Jane Eyre. One series I wished I wouldnt have finished but did anyways way The Witches of Eilenean.

[Lament Du Lamia]

ive heard similar things when i mention the fact that i could barely get into the book. people say that it was awesome, which is consequently why i picked it up in the first place. who knows, maybe ill give it a go once more, sometime.

[hodor]

Well, alot of times it depends on age; I didnt enjoy it until I was 23. Similar things happened as I enjoyed a book when I was younger but couldnt bear it later. Give it a go, if not it wasnt for you. Which happens. I tried Jane Eyre younger and just recently and found it, both times, boring and uninteresting.

[Lament Du Lamia]

the first time i did try reading it was when i was 16. maybe that has to do with it. Or it could be the fact that i find it hard to enjoy anything that isnt fantasy. Though there are a few.

[Devillishgirl]

I haven't been able to finish Catch-22 either. I've had it on my nightstand for almost two years now and I'm not even halfway through it. It may be one of those books I just have to be in the right frame of mind to read. It took me three tries to get into Rice's Lestat and then on the third attempt I couldn't even put it down.

[Space Monkey]

Greg Bear - Songs of Earth and Power.
There were two books in this one edition I had, and they were horrible. One was called The infinity Concerto, and I can't remember the name of the other, but I thought he wrote like an amateur. Clumsy, awkward, overexplained everything and dumbed it all down way too much (one of my pet hates).

[rune]

I know this is awful to admit but there as been quite a lot of books I couldnt bear to finish

Ones that were too long winded, too much detail, very slow plots, and downright boring. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Clarke was one such book.

[knivesout]

Kevin Anderson's Hopscotch. Paper-thin characters, a woefully transparent plot and a concept that was sadly under-explored.

[littlemissattitude]

Clive Barker's "Imajica" - and I don't know why. It's very, very long, but I got within about 150 to 200 pages of the end. And I really liked it. But I just never have finished it. Must do so one of these days.

[Leto]

Oh boy, there's a lot of owful books I wasn't able to finish. The last one I remember was Sorcery Rising, Fool's Gold by Jude Fisher.

[zorcarepublic]

One book I almost couldn't finish was the first book of Dune. I've been more used to books by David Weber, and Herberts writing was, different, to say the least. But I finished it...

[Mark Robson]

Nope, can't think of any! I tend to perserve regardless of quality, length, readability, or any other quality. The acid test comes when I consider whether I would ever re-read or recommend the book to anyone else. If the answer is no, then the book tends to disappear from my collection whenever I thin out my seemingly ever increasing collection.

[I, Brian]

Catch 22 is one I couldn't finish in my teens. Maybe I was too young to "get it".

A couple of more recent ones I put down:

Peter F. Hamilton - Fallen Dragon - The guy can write characters and events, but he has no sense of story or plotting. 100 or so pages in, absolutely nothing of interest had happened. I want to read a story in a book.

Stephen Baxter - Titan - Decent intro (Columbia, anyone?) but it does plod along. Aim to return to this one day when I have a lot of time to kill.

Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - horrible use of Point of View (told from the perspective of a servant recounting the great Byzantine general's life). Just kills the storytelling for me.

[Princess Ivy]

to manny to mention! the one i feel most guilty about is LOTR