Abandoned/DNF

[Jennifer, The Jaguar]

What book/s did you abandon? What made you stop reading? Do you think reviews for abandoned books are accurate?

I personally ALWAYS finish a book I started, whether I like it or not. It's just a personal pet peeve. I HAVE to finish it.

[Lina]

I abandones The Host and Through The Looking Glass (and on and off I abandon/hiatus LOTR) because of boring. If a book is boring, there is really small chance of me finishing it.

[Jennifer, The Jaguar]

You abandoned The Host? I've heard good things about that book.

[Lina]

Yeah. I found it had a really slow start. And I'm not really a fan of Meyers writing style. This was years ago though, so maybe I'll like it better if I read it now

[Angelli]

I abandoned Gone girl, dont know if you heard about it. I got it because it was like in top of the bestsellers that year and I wanted to see how was it. But oh, it started good but then it turn slow and the story went in circles, boring. So I only read close to the half of the book.

[[deleted user]]

I abandoned Magician

From the reviews I read about it I was expecting awesomeness but I didn't find it awesome at all.

[Bailey]

Okay i abandoned The Last Little Blue Envelope at least 5 times while reading it. I am also one of those people who always finishes a book once i start it but ugh, that one was hard to finish. I thought the first book was pretty good for a tween book but the 2nd one was too slow for my liking. I finally finished it about 2 weeks ago after about 6 months. The ending was the only thing that made it worth reading. Wouldn't recommend it.

[Bookishlor]

Normally I don't abandon books but the older I get, the more I think "hey....I'm wasting my life reading this piece of boring drivel, which I have already given more than three shots, when I could be reading something better?!? No thank you.'

I abandoned The Host for slowness too. I just could not get into the character in the beginning. I think I made it two or three chapters in? I just got off of reading Twilight though so that might have something to do with it. I was missing that amazing character connection.

Also abandoned The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Could not get into it! Read a few chapters and threw it down. Then I watched the American made movie, completed the movie and said THANK GOD I did not waste my life reading that book! It is a VERY mature themed story and had subject matter I wouldn't care to watch or read about or talk about actually. Halfway through the story it got off the main plot and went in a different direction. It's a mystery. Why aren't you writing about the mystery? Instead the writer started writing about how messed up the investigators were?!? It was awful.

[Jojobean]

I don't abandon books. Its just my thing. I have to finish a book if I started it. Especially since I write reviews. I want to be able to write a review and say why I didn't like it as well as say that I actually read the whole book.

I can't stand reviews based on abandoned books. It makes no sense at least to me, to write about a book that was not finished. It just irks me.

[Maggie the Muskoka Library Mouse]

I give a book 100 pages to interest me. If it can't, I toss it away and pick another one. The last novel I abandoned was "A Spell of Winter" by Helen Dunmore. The writing was very dull to me, and the characters annoyed me.