What’s the one book that everyone loves that you just couldn’t get through? Mine is The Sound and The Fury. Grrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!
What’s the one book that everyone loves that you just couldn’t get through?
Mine is The Sound and The Fury. Grrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!
Harry potter ??
Agree
Hated it
Agree!
And a third!
I still haven’t even tried to read it…
Im SO glad im not the only one. I read the 1st one because i had to for school at the time but hated it. Not even interested in the movies.
Sacrilege!!!!
I feel you on that, I’m taking a Faulkner seminar class and I want to die of boredom
I wish I knew HOW people switch back and forth between characters without going crazy!
I don’t mind that, I can’t stand the story itself…. it’s just so boring
Maybe that’s it. I hate the story!!! Wow.
Light in August was pretty good though
I’ll try that one
Don’t blame you!
Jodi Picoult – The Story Teller 🙁
Love this.
The Nightingale
Wow, that was my best book!
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I couldn’t get thru three cups of tea
Cloud Atlas
The Great Gatsby
Really? What did you not like? Watch the movie – Robert Redford version.
Not my preferred genre.
Couldn’t get through this one either!
@Kristen – I hated it too and dropped it only a few pages in. Nothing to do with the story – I loved the Robert Redford film. It was the narrator and his style of talking – which I found intensely irritating.
The girl on the train
At the risk of being shot down in flames by Bookclub members….The Nightingale?
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I read a page of the nightingale!
Hollow City
Did you like the first book? I loved the first one and need to pick up this one from the library.
I really enjoyed the first!! But could not get into the second book AT ALL. I donated them to my library at work. I had bought the trilogy.
A little life.
Gone girl.
Girl on the train
Nightingale.
The Ice Twins
It was awful!
Gone Girl!
Cannot describe how much I hated that book!
@Jill Me too!
Me three!!!
The Goldfinch
That was the one that I managed to finish and then wished I hadn’t bothered!
I can’t understand the phenomenon of this book.
Gone girl
The Rosie Project & The Fault in Our Stars
Disliked The Rosie Project….really loved The Fault in our Stars!
I love, love, loved The Nightingale! Guess we have different taste in books! X
I am Pilgrim, and A Little Life.
Loved pilgrim. Hated the other. Funny isn’t it !
I loved both books.
I read I Am Pilgrim to the end, but didnt find it special at all! Little Life…. gah!
The Book Thief
Ditto
The Nightingale….. ugh
Mine too!
Ulysses!
I couldn’t get through 10 pages of that! Reading shouldn’t be hard work.
The God of small things… tried it so many times I gave it away in the end.
I thought I was alone, I tried twice and just could not do it and I gave it away as well..
Loved it……..
A man called ove
Shame. I loved him. Try again ?
Maybe one day!
The Book Thief and We Need to Talk About Kevin
Oh they are two of my faves!!!!
So funny! I know the majority of people loved them. Maybe I should try again
Me too on both. I even tried watching the movie ‘ let’s talk about Kevin ‘ I don’t think I managed half an hour
The Devil in The White City
I have tried to read this book three times. The beginning is so boring. Or maybe I should try one more time…
Room but I am going to try again!!
I have that book, but after three pages it was looking too harrowing to handle…
I just couldn’t get to grips with it being told through the little boy!!!
This book killed me, too sad 🙁
I thought the book and movie were great. Heavy, and stayed with me for a long time, but worth it
Catch 22
Captain Corellis Mandalin
Most Jodi Picoult
I think I’m an impatient reader, I get bored with too much romantic prose or political references. I’ll stick to YA ?
Interesting you say Captain Corelli..,
I started it several years ago – hated it, necer finished it, but never threw it away… I loved the start of it tbh but just couidht get past it.
Jokingly mentioned it to a friend about two years ago who persuaded me to try again, slowly, patiently, when not working, and to read it over a summer break, in longer time chunks.
Worked perfectly. Loved it!!
If ever there is a book to savour on a hot day, it’s captain Corelli.
I’ve tried it three times, back when the film came out, and always lost interest during the political bits…maybe it’s time to try again? I laughed when my husband said he loved the politics and skipped the love scenes ?
No harm skipping bits.,. I think I might have done to get through it, it is hard going.
I dId feel rewarded though.
Not my favourite book but overall I did enjoy it – some sections so beautifully written.
Goes to show how no writer can please everyone ? ? ?
11.22.63 by Stephen King, I persisted for nearly 300 pages but gave up in the end?!
I am a Pilgrim – too much blood and gore!
Winter’s Tale! I want to read it and liked the beginning, but it is so long. I’ve read The Stand, which is long as well. Not sure why I can’t get through it 🙁 I will one day though! Lol
I didn’t even get to chapter 3 with Winters Tale.
Lolita.
I’m thinking of starting this soon. What was it you didn’t like about it?
Writing style and subject matter
I worked really hard recently to finish 1984. Glad I read but it was work.
Yeah I couldn’t read that either!
Wolf Hall
Same, don’t get what all the fuss was about
Same x
I hated it first time but preserved…….Watched the TV adaptation, read it again and loved it!
A Little Life bored the bejeebus out of me, but I kept going in case I was missing something! (I wasn’t!)
A little life. Although I pushed to the end….
The light between two oceans. Book theif. Ice twins.
I persevered, but it was PAINFUL!
Shantaram. Actually got 90% of the way through then got sick and tired of the character.
I only managed about 10%
Agree
Gave up. Hated film too.
A cuckoos calling
Book no..movie ok
Anna karenina, I know it’s a classic but I’ve never made it to the end
Pride and Prejudice, The Great Gatsby, Les Mis
I had to read Pride And Prejudice when I was at high school. It was OK, but took a while to grow on me. There are several characters in the novel whom I would dearly love to slap!
Loved that book! Not for everyone I guess
100 year old man who climbed out of the window. Finished it but don’t get the hype and Shantaram which I’m about 40% through. I keep stopping and starting. One chapter grips me and the next is like watching paint dry
Forgot the 100 year old man – one of the very few books I couldn’t finish, definitely not worth the hype!
100 year old man I’ve started twice and just can’t get into it.
I read it but didn’t like it at all
Gave up at about 20%
Hated the movie didn’t bother with book
Cloud Atlas. Tried to read it years ago. Completely over my head and made me feel thick.
Agreed! One of the few I gave up and don’t intend to try again.
I saw the movie first (unusual for me, I normally read the book) – and LOVED it!! Then read the book. The book was AWFUL!! Didnt flow properly, couldnt connect the characters plot etc. If I’d read the book first, Id have missed out on a great film. I think the director is amazing for having made a clever coherent film out of such a non coherent book.
me before you
Terrible and depressing. I agree.
Wolf Hall. Absolutely loved the dramatisation, but could not get through the book. Very unusual for me to prefer the film/TV
The Martian! It’s taking me forever, it’s good but I keep putting it down and reading a different one then coming back read a little more then chose a different book!
Same with two by two by Nicholas sparks I read about 20 pages and I haven’t gone back yet! It’s been a few months it’s such a long intro ? hard to get into!
The Goldfinch
Same here
A man called ove, I tried it 3 times
Slaughter House Five, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and the House of Seven Gables are the ones that come right to mind! I finished them all but didn’t care for them. All for different reasons. ?
Second Life by SJ Watson its a thriller but I found it very repetitive?
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
Great question…..
I have never read pride and prejudice… Never even tried as hype put me off. Love the BBC adaptation though and frequently watch it in one go.
Northanger Abbey better than P&P in my opinion.
But I’m a Bronte fan lol there’s more rawness in it 😉
What else would you recommend? X
What do you like? I’m not a big JA fan though a book fan, I’ve read a couple.
Daphne du Maurier without a doubt.
I like slightly obscure classics x
Just remembered: Life of Pi.
Haha I’ve just remembered this one too!
Hated it and won’t go back to it – life’s too short.
Wow. So surprised so many disliked the book. I really thought I might be the only one!
Shantaram
History of Love
That book was painful! I still own it but just couldn’t do it.
The art of hearing heartbeats. ❤️
Here’s another: One Hundred Years of Solitude. Just can’t. Everyone I know loves this one
Shantaram
Shantaram
Shantaram and Captain Corelli’s Mandolin……..
Time travellers wife…..awful
Oi!!!!!?
Movie even worse….
The Help
I’ve two, Me before You and Stranger in my Home.
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson. I tried to read it twice.