books you could not finish

[Carolyn F.]

Photojim wrote: "You people are a bad influence on me. I'm reading the most craptacular book right now (Unearthed) and I thought, 'Maybe I should read the end to see if I can really suffer through t..."

Oh, the singing that helps everyone - that was a pretty bad book.

[Jim son of Jim (formerly PhotoJim)]

Carolyn F. wrote: "Oh, the singing that helps everyone - that was a pretty bad book. "


You aren't just whistling Dixie on that one! I'm nearly halfway done and considering a lobotomy to make it through the rest. It's like a parody of bad space opera. If anyone is interested in what a good space opera is like, read some Peter F. Hamilton and more specifically Pandora's Star.

[Pollyanna]

Atonement, Sunshine and Herland are the only books I have never finished. I used to always finish a book even if I wasn't enjoying it because I felt I had to lol but now if a book isn't grabbing my attention I think of all the books I'm missing out on.

I notice quite a few people gave up on The Time Travellers Wife, I did read the whole book but I can understand why people don't like it, I find it highly overrated.

[Mel W]

I haven't read The Time Traveller's Wife but a couple of friends were keen to see the movie so I tagged along. They quite enjoyed it but I thought it rather meh. I wasn't sure if it was the censoring but I kind of felt like "what, hang on a second, I've missed something" throughout most of the movie. The highlight for me ... Eric Bana :)

[Sandy]

I couldn't finish Legend of the White Wolf. I just couldn't get interested in it.

[Christine]

Oh, I couldn't finish The Time Traveler's Wife. The movie was boring, too.

I just gave up on The Traveler by John Twelve Hawk. I think I wanted it to be a good book since the author has such a cool name, but *sigh* it wasn't.

[Macwolf01 [Elise]]

I have to admit to reading the ending of most books, it all stems from reading a wonderful book but the ending ruined the whole thing. So now if I don't like the last page I won't read it.

The book that turned me into an end reader, was re-read up to a point and then I stapled the last chapter so it wouldn't piss me off again. Otherwise I can truly say that I've never purposely defaced a book.

[Macwolf01 [Elise]]

Photojim wrote: "You people are a bad influence on me. I'm reading the most craptacular book right now (Unearthed) and I thought, 'Maybe I should read the end to see if I can really suffer through t..."

haha I will pick up a book cuz friends say it was good but even friends who read the same genre don't always have the same tastes. I loved Hood by Stephen Lawhead was handing it out to friends & family some loved it some couldn't finish it. We have a deal no hurt feelings if someone doesn't love a book you do. Books are like food & wine ... each to there own.

As for the cover ... haha I must admit to a gag myself but if its a good read you can always cover it. That book was published in 2005, maybe that explains the horror on the front.

Can I steal "craptacular"? ... excellent smooshing of words (fav pasttime of mine)

[Jim son of Jim (formerly PhotoJim)]

Macwolf01, sure you can have craptacular. I'm not even sure where I got it from.

[Dee]

I think craptacular would definately work when people ask me at 5am/6am when I show up at work, how i'm doing...(I'm soo not a morning person)

[Macwolf01 [Elise]]

haha me too ... never been a morning person, it would be perfect for those weeks I work days, its not pretty

[Dee]

yeah...or the people who come in after I've been working all night - we work rotating shifts each week (and I have two weeks of nights coming up)...i don't like morning people either!

[Steph]

I put down Witchling and Bad Blood without finishing.

[Macwolf01 [Elise]]

Haha I'm totally with you,I have a week of midnights for the entire May 24 long weekend (sucks). I normally do 2 weeks days, 2 weeks afternoons and a week of midnights. Perky morning people are annoying when us morning haters work especially if I haven't had coffee yet ... then I am exceptionally craptacular.

[Dee]

what's that mcdonald's add...dont' talk to me until i've had my coffee! lol! i normally bring starbucks in and then one of the guys I work with, makes a coffee run around 8am...so he gets me another...and around the end (about noon), I had a mountain dew...i think i'm nearly immune to caffeine now...

I work - a week of nites (10 pm to 6am); a week of swings (2pm to 10pm); a week of days (6am to 2pm) - then a week off, then a week of three half days - plus two weeks (each 12 hour shifts) - one of days and one of nights

but to the original question...I could never finish Cold Mountain but I didn't mind the movie

Macwolf01 wrote: "Haha I'm totally with you,I have a week of midnights for the entire May 24 long weekend (sucks). I normally do 2 weeks days, 2 weeks afternoons and a week of midnights. Perky morning people are ann..."

[Nikki ♥]

I couldn't finish Dark Prince by Christine Feehan. I didn't care for her writing and I couldn't get into the story.

[KimKirt]

Wow, I'm tickled pink to find others who didn't like The Time Traveler's Wife. I did finish it, but did not like it. No desire to see the movie.

The only book I can recall not finishing is Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. I truly, honestly tried to finish it. Even my husband finished it and he doesn't read voraciously like I do. I was told if I made it halfway through the book I'd be home free. Didn't happen. Just over halfway thru I quit. Couldn't take it anymore.

I don't even skip to endings. Ohh, I couldn't do that. I think I'd turn into a pillar of salt.

Oh wait! I thought of another one (hence my edit to this post). The Shack. Oh gosh, I really AM going to turn into a pillar of salt now. Sigh! But I just felt like I was reading the exact same thing in every chapter. So much hype over the book and I didn't even finish it.

[Christine]

Thought of another one: American Gods by Neil Gaiman

I've read everything else by this man (except for the kid books) and loved them, but I could not get through American Gods.

[Jim son of Jim (formerly PhotoJim)]

Christine, you and my best friend both had trouble with it. I thought it was decent. Didn't love it, but didn't have the adverse reaction either.

Kim, I actually liked Wicked. I hated the other two books of his I tried. But Wicked, I liked.

[Carolyn F.]

I liked Wicked too Photojim. I only read his other book Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, which was good but really depressing.

[KimKirt]

Yes, my stepson and husband both liked Wicked. Trust me, I don't like leaving books unfinished but I just couldn't get through it. Don't guess I'll be picking up any of his others either.

[Caleb]

I put down with 10 pages left to go. I couldn't finish it, I just didn't care what happened to any of the characters.

Demonic book! I just could not keep reading it here are a few reasons as to why:
*I don't always have a mirror when I read
*It is hard to read a book from multiple points within the book (like the book will refer you from front to back and then a different point all together, so you'll read 100 pages in the front, then 25 in the back, then back to the front again...)
*It's fiction and it feaking has foot notes!
*Could the text be any smaller?


I don't have a reason for this one. I just couldn't do it. I will try again. I am thinking audio for this! lol!

The vampire had an unnatural obsession with Jesus. This is too much for even me!

I try not to leave books unfinished. Some I just cannot handle!

[Desperado]

Mostly anything by Jade Lee. I swear Lee is freaking weird! All her books I've read involve these bs plots about ying yang penises full of sperm taking you to the big tea leaf in the sky & attaining fulfillment or some such crap. One book even had the hero get some other chick knocked up & the heroine was like "That's ok, I still love you even though you knocked some other chick up & still want to bone her brains out".

[Dee]

this is the first DNF book i've had in a long time - Lucca - the premise was interesting, doctor falls in love with woman he has treated who has lost her sight in an accident...but it was translated from dutch and i think that was part of the problem, plus it was really slow - 80 pages in - had heard his point of view and just starting a re-telling of her life up to that point...

[Erin]

♠LethalLovely~HBBIC♠ wrote: "Mostly anything by Jade Lee. I swear Lee is freaking weird! All her books I've read involve these bs plots about ying yang penises full of sperm taking you to the big tea leaf in th..."

I agree. I had to force myself to finish The Dragon Earl, it was awful!!

[Erin]

I only made it to chapter 12 of . I thought the book would get better if I kept on reading but it didn't and I just couldn't finish it :(.

[Jim son of Jim (formerly PhotoJim)]

@LethalLovely and Erin - As for Jade Lee, the only one of her books I've read is The Tao of Sex. It earned a solid one star from me. Blech~!


@Carla - I loved House of Leaves! It just kept drawing me in. The footnotes were like actual notes and you could tell as the narrator was getting closer to coming undone. Then it got spooky.

[ஐ Katya (Book Queen)ஐ]

Macwolf01 [Elise:] wrote: "I have to admit to reading the ending of most books, it all stems from reading a wonderful book but the ending ruined the whole thing. So now if I don't like the last page I won't read it.

The ..."

Okay, gotta ask...what book was so good up to the point that you stapled the last chapter together so it wouldn't piss you off again. Curious to know what book it was (and what chapter you stapled).

[Chloe]

H.R.H. by Danielle Steel. I love Danielle Steel but I just could not get into this book.

[Courtney]

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Dracula- I thought I couldn't get into the writing style of the diaries and letters, but it may just have been the subject too. IDK. I recenlty read The Boy Next Door by Meg Cabot and loved it. It was told through emails, which is the 20th century version of letters.

[Kathy Anne]

The Hunger Games
Ender
These books made me wonder what kind of adults are on the horizen,that the young have to go thru that kind of stuff to protect them.

[Pam]

I have been trying to finish Indigo Blue since the beginning of June. Usually I finish things I start and I usually like Catherine Anderson but I have not been able to slog through this.

[The Romance Reviews (Carole)]

Faith of the Fallen by Terry Goodkind. That's also where my interest in the series fell off. Seriously, I can't take so many pages of Richard whittling the wood and taking care of poor Kahlan. I've never hated a heroine so much as Kahlan. I. Just. Dont. Like. Her.

Carole
The Romance Reviews

[KimKirt]

I just gave up on Emma And The Outlaw The heroine was irritating the heck out of me.

[Ro]

Lady Sophia's Lover

I usually love Lisa Kleypas, and this one? They were all aggravating me. I went ahead and read the ending (a bad habit, I know) and I still couldn't finish it.

[Raine]

I'm really struggling with The Warlord Wants Forever although it is just a really short book. I have heard from so many people that this is an awesome series, but if the other books are anything like this book, I'm afraid I will have to pass.

[~♥*Marianna*♥~]

I often have this same problem with books. Ill start reading and its all fine and dandy and then out of nowhere they've lost my interest. Sometimes its the plot or the characters and it leaves me with a very disappointing feeling since I really want to like the book especially if paid for it!
I now have bookshelves called "stalled" for books I'm really hoping I'll get back to reading, "dropped" for books that for various reasons I no longer plan on completing, and "annoying" for books that had some frustrating little tidbit that prevented me from finishing them on the account that I would tear my hair out if I had to look at on more word.

Raine,
I know what you mean about The Warlord Wants Forever. I did finish it.(Probably only because it was so short) However I am now hesitating to get any of the other books because of the issues I had with first. The series is soo well liked that Im left thinking that the others might be better because they're longer.

[Ro]

Raine and Marianna - I like Kresley Cole, and I thought Warlord Wants Forever was just so-so. Definitely not a shining example of how good she can be. No Rest for the Wicked is so much better

[Raine]

Lucy, I do have A Hunger Like No Other on my TBR pile, so maybe she deserves a second chance. But for now I'm going to find something else to read.

[Jasmin]

But I'll still definitely pick it again and try reading through XD

[Fran, Moderator]

Raine wrote: "Lucy, I do have A Hunger Like No Other on my TBR pile, so maybe she deserves a second chance. But for now I'm going to find something else to read."

Raine- try A Hunger Like No Other! It's really good- when you have time you might want to try Kresley Cole again. There are some really great books in the IAD series.

[Jane (PS), Moderator]

There are quite a few books I haven't finished, The Warlord Wants Forever being one of them (I have read other IAD books and loved them, so it was just that one), along with Playing with Fire and Unearthed. I thought I'd give Unearthed another go thinking I had overdosed on Scifi Rom at the time... But maybe it really was boring??!! LOL

But the one I am really have trouble with is Night Embrace (Dark-Hunter, #2). I've been reading this book since March 2009. It is still next to my bed and occassionally I'll pick it up and read another few pages. But I WANT to finish it 'cos I have more books in the series waiting to be read! I have nearly taken all the Kenyon books to the book exchange just to clear them away and relieve my guilty conscience. I think I just can't stand the H/h in this book - I'm hoping the rest won't be so pathetic. Plus the 'gods' thing is pretty annoying...