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• --- Books you started reading but just coun&#39;t get through. ---
• Bookworm (2008-09-18 18:34 ID:hyJfuQuU )
• Some books seem promising then you start reading and just can't read it because you either don't like the style, it's boring, it's crap.... etc. \n\n Name of book:
• How far you got:
• Why you stopped reading: \n\n
• Bookworm (2008-09-19 00:13 ID:Oa2BWaB4 )
• When We Were Orphans
• About three quarters of the way?
• Whyyyyy are you so naive? Why can't you see beyond your fantasy world? I'm sure it's a very good book and I do like Kazuo Ishiguro's style, but I just could not put up with the narrator in this one. \n\n
• Bookworm (2008-09-19 00:31 ID:4jMM+zPz )
• Name of book: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (something like that)
• How far you got: a few chapters I guess... make it a few dozen pages. The guy lost his horse or something.
• Why you stopped reading: Boring. Read the few I have read in two sessions, then dropped it somewhere. Found it 2 years later while moving out, it was stuck behind my bedhead. Don't know where it is now. \n\n
• Bookworm (2008-09-19 19:50 ID:Fcmjttap )
• Cold Mountain
• 3/4 done
• That book is soul-numbingly boring. \n\n "Oh, I'm going to farm." "Can I help?" "For the sake of the plot, yes." "Cool." \n\n
• Bookworm (2008-09-22 02:05 ID:NDSY0F3X )
• Mercy Among the Children
• Chapter two.
• AAAAAUUUGH!! "I'm a guilt ridden guy who won't forgive himself for saving the life of a scumbag. Would you like to hear about my depressing grandmother? How about my creepy uncle? Or my schizophrenic and morbidly obese sister? How about my suicidal neighbor? Or my...?"
• STOP TRYING TO BE DEPRESSING SIMPLY FOR SHOCK VALUE!!! \n\n
• Bookworm (2008-09-22 19:35 ID:aeOZ5R5C )
• How to lose friends and alienate people
• The prologue
• ''Oh god I couldn't care less that you couldn't get into that stupid fucking party or all the celebrities that were there and your terrible attempts at humor just annoy me oh god just shut up you pathetic little bald man.'' Or something to that extent. \n\n
• Bookworm (2008-09-22 21:35 ID:WCTURik1 )
• Redwall, back when all my friends were into it quite a few years ago (this probably betrays my age, but whatever)
• I think I got to maybe chapter 4. Maybe. Don't remember exactly, but it was boring as crap. Something about talking mice or somesuch. \n\n
• Bookworm (2008-10-02 01:38 ID:uIZBPasa )
• >>7 Actually liked that series...more like the first book. The rest just goes on and on without the main characters. Bah. \n\n Great Book of Amber by Roger Zelazny
• Fifth book?
• Ten books in one--not such a shabby idea. Completing all those books--hard to concentrate. \n\n
• Bookworm (2008-10-03 00:15 ID:O9LUGAOu )
• 1984
• i cant even count the number of times i have tried to read this book before
• and for some rason i just cant get though it, i get a couple of chapters farther each time but my brain just shuts off, which sucks cause this genre of book are my favorite \n\n
• Bookworm (2008-10-03 04:12 ID:ZolH/ZkL )
• >>9
• I thought it was interesting. I read it before the year I read it in classes because of pure interest. Also, I'd like to note interesting parallels between 1984 and Scientology. Some parts of Scientology organization sound very similar to how the Party is set up. \n\n Hearts in Atlantis
• Hearts in Atlantis (half to mid-way through that story)
• I stopped reading through it for a couple of weeks and just lost interest. \n\n
• Bookworm (2008-10-06 04:28 ID:DkLtjRCS )
• So this is like an anti-recommendation thread, right? \n\n
• Bookworm (2008-10-06 09:24 ID:gj8qWKi7 )
• >>11
• Anti-no. \n\n
• Bookworm (2008-10-07 17:47 ID:hZnw/fKZ )
• I, Claudius. \n\n Left at page 250 something \n\n Coping with Titus, Claudius, Urgulanila, Urgulania, Tiberius, Augustus, Agrippa, Livia, Messalina, Agrippinilla, Sejanus, Nero, Caligula, Drussilla, Narcissus, Pallas (there are more, but those are the FEW I can remember) and all of their personal problems ad schemes... \n\n
• Bookworm (2008-10-17 07:12 ID:udtjI42n )
• Pride and Prejudice
• Not really far. First book I ever fell asleep reading. Once I fell asleep I never read it again.
• I don't get why it's so famous. I mean how many people have actually read this thing? Long and boring. \n\n
• ek (2008-10-23 19:52 ID:deZ+2ZeY )
• Ulysses, by James Joyce \n\n Five times in my life, I've slogged through half of it, at which point I had to admit that I had no idea of what the hell was happening anymore. \n\n
• Bookworm (2008-10-29 06:32 ID:i4AEkPKA )
• Pynchon's Mason & Dixon. I can't get past the five paragraphs on the first page that describe a table. \n\n
• Bookworm (2008-10-29 15:23 ID:8O/RR4vw )
• >>15
• Ha, i understand you (lack of) pain. I had to read it for a grade here in college, and honestly i preferred to get a horrible mark instead of ending the damn book. \n\n
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