Wow…I’m surprised. I wasn’t going to read them…not my genre, but after they became less plentiful to find, I decided to read the first one…I got at a thrift store. I was hooked and went looking for the next 2. You just never know, I guess.?
Same here!! Several years ago I checked it out from the library so many times. Then I finally just bought a copy at a thrift shop. The weird thing is I like it a lot, just have taken so long!!
Although I am going to revisit this one at some point this year. I don’t think I was in the right frame of mind when I started it. It was a bookclub pick, I had a lot of stuff going on, and just couldn’t focus enough to get through it. Kind of ironic when you think about what the book is about.
Lucky Boy, The Love Warrior, Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children, The Twilight Wife, The Peculiar Miracles of Antoinette Martin, Fortune Hunter and many more.
I keep wanting to stand up for the unfinished books like they are personal friends of mine. Except Moby Dick. You are on your own, freaking Moby Dick. On. Your. Own.
Eden Close. I try hard to keep reading it but I just can’t get through it
Gone Girl
Dreamfire by Kit Alloway. I think I may have come close and than gave up. I tried to pick up the second but just couldn’t do it :/
Les Miserable
Dr strange and mr Noral…I think I got the name wrong lol
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and I couldn’t finish it either.
The Time Traveller’s Wife
That’s one of my favorite books!! (Disliked the movie though).
House of Leaves
Pride and Prejudice. I’ve tried reading it twice and listening to it once. Just can’t do it!
Me too. Love the rewrites though
A tale of 2 cities.
I just can’t.
I made it as far as 2 chapters. I read them 2 times on two different occassions. But nope.
The hunger games
I could not finish that either. I made it about half way through the first book.
I just wasn’t Interested… that genre isn’t my favorite so I was going out on a limb trying to read it.. I just couldn’t
Wow…I’m surprised. I wasn’t going to read them…not my genre, but after they became less plentiful to find, I decided to read the first one…I got at a thrift store. I was hooked and went looking for the next 2. You just never know, I guess.?
Americanah and Life After Life
Can’t say that I ever leave a book in the but I have struggled to read through a couple of them for example The Hobbit is one
I couldn’t finish The Hobbit either. It started off so well and made me laugh, but I got bored very quickly.
the house on mango street, where she went (sequel to if I stay)
Infinite Jest
The Sweetheart by Angelina Mirabella.
I just could not get into the story. I stopped half way through the book.
Lisa Scottoline, Keep Quiet… I wanted to read it but the secret stressed me out!!! I’ve never had that happen before.
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson.
I also didn’t finish this one
I found the part in Germany hard going but did finish it. Preferred the smaller sections.
Gone girl
I wish I hadn’t finished it. :/
I ended up watching the film
The memory keepers daughter half way I lost interest and took me a while I think I didn’t read the last twenty pages
Never let me go as well,
Couldn’t get into it
The Shining
Fates and Furies…I was so mad because I bought it in hardback! I didn’t understand the point of the book. ??
I couldn’t finish that one either! The writing killed me
It was awful!! I only read about 50 pages. I couldn’t stand Lotto.
My book club chose it and I was the only one that couldn’t read it. Everyone else loved it!
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen.
Me too!!!
Me three!
Anything by Shakespeare! Sorry but I got bored very quickly – you may shoot me down if you wish ?
Northangery Abbey, 1984….
Don Quixote!!!omg!! Waste of time!
Moby dick
I couldn’t finish it either.
Agh. This book is my nemesis.
Fates and Furies
Ulysses
To Kill a Mockingbird
? I loved that book
@Jessica lol…I can’t get far enough into it for it to be enjoyable.
? its okay lol
Anna Karenina. But it’s on my list to read this year!
I’ve tried a couple of times for Anna & haven’t succeeded yet. I did make it through the most recent movie adaptation.
Same here!! Several years ago I checked it out from the library so many times. Then I finally just bought a copy at a thrift shop. The weird thing is I like it a lot, just have taken so long!!
Across 5 Aprils.
The Rosie Project
Although I am going to revisit this one at some point this year. I don’t think I was in the right frame of mind when I started it. It was a bookclub pick, I had a lot of stuff going on, and just couldn’t focus enough to get through it. Kind of ironic when you think about what the book is about.
Worth trying again
I love this book – I’d definitely give it another try!
I will
Gone girl and the girl on the train most recently
Me too!
I could not get through Girl on the Train.
The Name of the Rose I still get shivers when I think of it
I bought this recently. “Shivers” doesn’t sound good at all, lol! Would you share a bit of what you didn’t like about it? Thank you!
I thought it was too wordy and dragged out. I just couldn’t get into it, but I have a friend who loved it so you might too
The Longest Ride. Never got past the first chapter.
Lucky Boy, The Love Warrior, Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children, The Twilight Wife, The Peculiar Miracles of Antoinette Martin, Fortune Hunter and many more.
pride and prejudice, the writing is amazing but i just didnt feel invested in the charecters or find that there was that much going on
50 shades of grey
Captains and Kings. Few characters to like and way too much politics. Also a poor state of affairs if any of it’s true.
Forgive me, Mr. Tolkien, but I only pretended to read The Silmarilion.
Wicked
Cutting for Stone.
Me too, Camille!
I loved Cutting For Stone. Difficult to read but a profound story.
I keep wanting to stand up for the unfinished books like they are personal friends of mine. Except Moby Dick. You are on your own, freaking Moby Dick. On. Your. Own.
In high school I had and English teacher who made a Freudian slip when trying to say “Moby Dick.” I’ll let you figure out what that Freudian slip was.
That book is a disgrace
Fist-bump for my fellow Moby Dick non-finishers.
I agree!!!
Crime and Punishment the second time around!!
Oliver twist
Ulysses
Me too. Sigh.
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Me too
Madam Bovary
All the light you cannot see ? for some reason I just couldn’t get into it