The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
There are many books, whether contemporary or classic, which are often picked up by readers and started but that the readers never finished.
This is NOT about it being a bad book. It's more or less about it being hard to actually finish, as in it can be quite a challenge to read it.
What do you think is the most initated/begun book ever?
This is NOT about it being a bad book. It's more or less about it being hard to actually finish, as in it can be quite a challenge to read it.
What do you think is the most initated/begun book ever?
Leila
993 books
92 friends
92 friends
Collin
173 books
5 friends
5 friends
Barbara
3610 books
28 friends
28 friends
Heather
506 books
11 friends
11 friends
Nicole
2449 books
74 friends
74 friends
Antoine
949 books
177 friends
177 friends
Ryan
347 books
86 friends
86 friends
Littlecinnamon
941 books
35 friends
35 friends
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Erica
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Dec 17, 2008 04:44AM
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Could not agree more.
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Whoever enjoys Pynchon must be mad!
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But American Gods and The Book Theif...? I loved those. I couldn't put either of them down.
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I had a VERY hard time with that book :) Couldn't get through it.
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Helter Skelter and In Cold Blood are the only two books I've never been able to finish.
There are paragraphs in books that make my eyes glaze over...as much as I like Tom Clancy books just about any paragraph that goes into detail about weaponry has me glazing, but I can push through to get to the next paragraph that draws my interest. It happens in other books too, were I might've figured out the plot or the characters are all over place and I get confused or I don't like the language or the politics are annoying or a whole host of things yet I "keep on keeping on" and plug away until the book is finished.
In the two books I voted for I literally put them down and chose to not finish them. Maybe when I'm older...
There are paragraphs in books that make my eyes glaze over...as much as I like Tom Clancy books just about any paragraph that goes into detail about weaponry has me glazing, but I can push through to get to the next paragraph that draws my interest. It happens in other books too, were I might've figured out the plot or the characters are all over place and I get confused or I don't like the language or the politics are annoying or a whole host of things yet I "keep on keeping on" and plug away until the book is finished.
In the two books I voted for I literally put them down and chose to not finish them. Maybe when I'm older...
Erica wrote: "I think you should add Wicked. I know 3 people including myself who have started reading this book but put it down cause it was so HORRIBLE!"
Thanks for the warning as I have even come close to buying this book. There are so many many books I have started but been UNable to finish. Sometimes I do go back to them 2 or 3 times and finally do finish them but I sure prefer the ones I cannot put down and must stay up all night to read.
Thanks for the warning as I have even come close to buying this book. There are so many many books I have started but been UNable to finish. Sometimes I do go back to them 2 or 3 times and finally do finish them but I sure prefer the ones I cannot put down and must stay up all night to read.
Emma wrote: "I couldn't get through Wicked even though I tried like eight times. I was totally surprised that such and awful book was that popular.
But American Gods and The Book Theif...? I loved those. I ..."
I made it thru The Book Thief but it wasn't easy. I couldn't read American Gods. I didn't like the title but the book was worse. I got half way before giving up.
But American Gods and The Book Theif...? I loved those. I ..."
I made it thru The Book Thief but it wasn't easy. I couldn't read American Gods. I didn't like the title but the book was worse. I got half way before giving up.
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I think I can answer for Conrad, though I swear I finished every word of Lord Jim, Victory and others. He's a gorgeous but self-conscious stylist. "Get on with it, already" I want to shout. ....Then again, some people love the very feature others hate. I guess that's why bald guys are able to score.
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I totally agree it is worth the effort. So is Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities.
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Thanks for the warning as I have eve..."
Canary, Horrible how ? Gruesome ? Sadistic ? What ? I know nothing of it.
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I like it much better now that I'm an old man myself (68). Did you know that Sr. Fuentes was real ? He was Hemingway's boat pilot....died a few years back at very advanced age.
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My wife and I finished Life of Pi reading out loud to each other....kept hoping it would add up to something and were disappointed when it didn't. What you have here I think is the AFFECTATION of significance. What do these Canadians know about tigers named Richard Parker and why the hell should I care ?
Carol wrote: "Rachel wrote: "Please keep trying with Catch-22. It is truly worth the effort. I admit that I had help with my first reading of the book; it was assigned reading in a Humanities class. I was defin..."
I found it to be so amusing it wasn't an effort. If its an effort and you are not enjoying it why bother unless its a requirement for a class? I try to read only what I enjoy. Life is too short to read boring, painful pointless books.
I found it to be so amusing it wasn't an effort. If its an effort and you are not enjoying it why bother unless its a requirement for a class? I try to read only what I enjoy. Life is too short to read boring, painful pointless books.
Thom wrote: "Ingrid wrote: "I've tried to read The Life of Pi twice and couldn't get through it...it's one of the few books I've ever not finished."
My wife and I finished Life of Pi reading out loud to each o..."
How nice to read out loud to each other. I am rarely allowed to do that.
My wife and I finished Life of Pi reading out loud to each o..."
How nice to read out loud to each other. I am rarely allowed to do that.
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And The SOUND and the FURY, that book makes me feel like a moron! I had to read each page twice until I gave it the obligatory 30 pages and gave up.
But LORD OF THE FLIES? I don't get it. I read it once in high school, and then read it again, in two days, for a college assignment.
I also loved THE BOOK THIEF and it kept me turning pages, but I've heard from others that it was difficult for them.
I think sometimes it's the narrative structure more than the lexile level that makes a book difficult. I know that was the case for me with THE SOUND AND THE FURY and I bet it's the case for others with LORD OF THE FLIES and THE BOOK THIEF.
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Couldn't get through Catch-22, American Gods; and once in awhile i pick up my unfinished Midnight's Children and give it a little go, only to get past a few pages only.
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Couldn't get through Catch-22, American Gods; and once in awhile i pick up my u..."
WOW!
At leat I am not alone in my dislike of AG.
Thank you very much.
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It's so odd that all the first 73 books on this list that I've read I have no problem with reading through at all, but the hardest of them all for me is the 74th. Am I just weird? I don't understand how the others are hard at all, but then everyone's different!
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My wife and I finished Life of Pi reading out loud to each o..."
Oh wow =) I don't know anyone else who does that, how wonderful.
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I totally agree! It is one of my all time favorite books!
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There are paragraphs in books that make my eyes glaze over...as much as I like Tom Clancy books just abou..."
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Then, I usually put the book down, and seldom pick it back up!
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