Even if I'm just not that into a book, I still try to read it all the way through in case it gets better or there's a good pay off at the end. I read Gone Girl and loved it, so someone suggested Behind Closed Doors. I absolutely hated it. I skipped to the end and was glad I didn't waste my time with it. I thought it was awful. I also couldn't finish Conversion. I think those are about the only books I couldn't finish. What about you guys?
Any books you just couldn't finish reading?
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Haha I remember being super creepy as a little kid and looking up my crushes names in the phone book and trying to imagine which address was theirs.
The Harry Potter books, I started reading them at 13 or so, which might be over the target demographic (?) because I remember them being too simplified and hard to read because of that, I felt like I was being spoken down to while reading them. I think it's because I didn't read at all until I was about 12, I just couldn't stomach young adult books.
Lately though, haven't come across any books I couldn't finish.
Lately though, haven't come across any books I couldn't finish.
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King Dorado
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I never finished The Brothers Karamazov despite starting it numerous tines; i can only make it halfway. It's not that I dislike the book, or Dostoevsky's writing, to the contrary i think its great-- it's just that at 900 pages or so long I always reach a point midway where i get distracted/interrupted by real life for an extended period of time and when i finally have time again for pleasure reading i've forgotten too much of what was going on to resume where i left off.
as far as deliberately not finishing a book goes, I hated Dickens' novels, so I didn't finish Great Expectations. unfortunately, it was required reading for a class. fortunately, the essay exam gave us the option of topics to choose from, and one had to do with a character who died halfway through the story; i wound up with the highest grade on the exam
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as far as deliberately not finishing a book goes, I hated Dickens' novels, so I didn't finish Great Expectations. unfortunately, it was required reading for a class. fortunately, the essay exam gave us the option of topics to choose from, and one had to do with a character who died halfway through the story; i wound up with the highest grade on the exam
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WynterFrost
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The only one coming to mind is Contagion. It was a really dull beginning and it was a library book too and i knew I wouldn't finish it before I had to return it so I just looked online what happened at the end.
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I like reading classics and started to read Swiss Family Robinson. It was so long and very boring at times. I did finish, but skipped a ton of pages.
EvieEvening23
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Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. I don't know, it's just kind of boring? There are so many names to remember, and the plot is bland so I just stopped reading it entirely. No offense to those that like her novels, but even the bookaholic I was in the 7th grade thought that it wasn't worth the time and energy.
A few paperbacks that had too small printing so I got headache trying to read it. Aside from that I remember being forced to read this kid/young adult book as a kid that was incredibly boring.. Think it was by Maria Gripe or stuff.
I also have the mentality of needing to finish every book that I start. However there are two that I never finished: Maniac McGee and The Cather in the Rye. Both of which I had to read for school. I simply disliked Maniac McGee so I don't think I'll ever try it again. I thought The Cather in the Rye was well worth reading though, I just got overworked with school stuff at the time, so I'll likely try it again in the future.
The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean. That book was just so hard to understand ;_; Like, the wording and concepts were very difficult to grasp, and I constantly felt like I had to reread each page because I hadn't understood.
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I had to read it for school, and honestly, I can't name one person who actually read it. I read it when I was about 13, and the book was just way to difficult for a 13 year old :[
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I had to read it for school, and honestly, I can't name one person who actually read it. I read it when I was about 13, and the book was just way to difficult for a 13 year old :[
same. i was 10/11 and i used to have some of the books in my bedroom for some reason but i found it so boring
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Just recently I had to end my suffering. I tried to read Ready Player One, which was disgusting gatekeeping, pandering garbage in addition to being pretty poorly written. Some neckbeard, fedora wearing, dudebro's high school fantasy he never let go of, that would never have seen the light of the best sellers shelf had it not been for Stranger Things' predominant and deserving rise to fame. It was killing me inside every time I'd pick it up and read another page. I had to free myself. Love myself.
The Count of Monte Cristo is far too long. Anything by Tolstoy, honestly. A Canticle for Lebowitz was just so exhausting. Basically most things they made us read in school I was just not into and gave up actually reading, only skimming enough to get by on tests. I liked things like To Kill a Mockingbird and F451 and some of the others, but if I ever have to look at a John Steinbeck book ever again I'll actually dissolve into a pile of burned book ash and blow away in the wind of high school curriculum.
The Count of Monte Cristo is far too long. Anything by Tolstoy, honestly. A Canticle for Lebowitz was just so exhausting. Basically most things they made us read in school I was just not into and gave up actually reading, only skimming enough to get by on tests. I liked things like To Kill a Mockingbird and F451 and some of the others, but if I ever have to look at a John Steinbeck book ever again I'll actually dissolve into a pile of burned book ash and blow away in the wind of high school curriculum.
Oh yeah I tried reading Monte Cristo when I was.. yeha a lil kid and because I could read really early(like, 4 years I think) people forced me to read like older kids or just adult books.
Dude I'm like idfk 8-9 I won't get stuff from that
Dude I'm like idfk 8-9 I won't get stuff from that
