Books I didn't like/couldn't finish

[dely]

Aka, I have seen the movie Beautiful Mind.
I have never read Jane Eyre and I don't know Nicholas Sparks. Thanks for the suggestion. Next time I will go to the bookstore I will give a look to Sparks' books to see if it is a kind of book I could like.

[Akanksha]

No problem. I'll look up some italian ebooks for u, light ones. Wil post the links if i find any.

[dely]

I have searched Sparks on internet and I have read some plot of his books and I am sure I don't like him. He speaks about love stories, problems to overcome and finally happy end; I have read he is sugary and sentimental. It is nothing for me.

[Akanksha]

Seriously Deli, don't give up before even trying. Have you read Charles Dickens?

[Amit]

god of small things.....thrice i tried but was hard to get over 50 pages....still m gona give a shot after few years again.....

[Akanksha]

Man, did i love god of small things? Im surprised u didn't like it, Arundhati Roy is a genius!

[Ahtims]

I loved 'God of small things'- have read it a couple of times. Only thing I didn't like about it was the end.

[Meenakshi]

Yes A walk to Remember was the only Sparks book that I liked...
@Akansha hey whadya mean by rite sort of books :P

[dely]

Akanksha wrote: "Seriously Deli, don't give up before even trying. Have you read Charles Dickens?"
Yes, a lot of time ago, when I was at school. He is great. I didn't put in my bookshelf of GR all the books I have read, I decided to start with the books read after divorce because I had again time to read :-)

[Sunny]

Hey Dely, we know you are spiritual.Thats great(honestly). But that doesn't mean you should give up humorous books.We should enjoy our life while following spirituality.

[dely]

I have strange tastes for books, I know, but I don't like sentimental books, I don't like happy end, I don't like books that don't transmit me something. I don't know how to explain my tastes regarding lectures. I have read also fiction and if you take for example ETA Hoffmann's The devil's elixirs it is sometimes funny but also deep because it talks how easy it can be to pass from normality to insanity; it is also nearly a thriller. I like chiefly books who speak about human beings and their frailty.
Sometimes I forget that the books in my shelf are all with the italian title and so you can't understand what I have read :D

[Prerak]

No Way! A walk to remember!!! I saw the movie first and after that when i read the book, i found the movie WAYYY better than the book!

[Meenakshi]

it is!

[Prerak]

Hi Meenakshi! Good to read from you again! Gives me relief that people havent forgotten me yet!

[Meenakshi]

oh c'mon, we won't forget you no matter for how long you go away..don't worry about us, concentrate on your studies right now..

[Akanksha]

She's right prerak, you've got ur boards.

[dely]

Prerak wrote: "Hi Meenakshi! Good to read from you again! Gives me relief that people havent forgotten me yet!"

Absolutely! I was waiting for you to tell you to look "rec" a spanish horror movie. Very scary, I didn't looked at it but my son did and he says it's one of the best horror movies ever seen.
Sorry for OT!

[[deleted user]]

I liked 'Rec' too, though its English remake, 'Quarantine', was plain silly.

[Ahtims]

Quarantine was not at all appealing to me. Had to stop it halfway through

[Prerak]

i have seen Rec and Quarantine both. and REC was definitely very good but indeed as Smitha said, Quarantine was FLAT!
anyways i have just started to read The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. i'm his big fan but i dont know why m not sure if the series would be as good as his horror novels are!

[Ahtims]

the only two books I've read by Stephen King is Pet Semetary and another book (forgot the name) about a man whose twin's brain is living inside him, or something like that.
Both were scary.

[Prerak]

The Dark Half was what you read!

[R.V]

I bought this book called Mayan Codex....by god remembers who...
Never read a more bogus story than than in my life.. left it mid-way...

[Dhanya]

Yeah I faced problems too in my first read of "The Inheritance of loss". I stopped it half-way. A very non-linear plot. In the second read, got the hang of the plot. It made for a very interesting read later.
As for Fountainhead, it didn't trouble me much. Plot was easy to follow. Add to that the most fascinating philosophy by Ayn Rand made it hard to lay my hands off the book.
The book that I gave up on was Amartya Sen's The Idea of Justice. From that day on-wards, I think twice before buying a non-fiction.

[Dhanya]

I guess I've replied to some older post. Sorry for the incoherence.

[[deleted user]]

Funny how we've all buried the same books. I haven't attempted The Fountainhead but Catcher in the Rye, War and Peace, and Catch 22 were all more effort than they seemed worth taking. I did enjoy Marquez' Love in the Time of Cholera and An Evil Hour, but One Hundred Years made me feel I had spent 100 years to get through it.

[Book'd]

I STARTED WITH "HORN OK PLEASE" BY KARTIK IYENGER FEW DAYS BACK. A VERY HORRIBLY WRITTEN BOOK, THERE IS MORE THAN EXECSSIVE USE OF PUNCH LINES, WE HAVE TO FIND OUT THE ORIGINAL SUBJECT BETWEEN SUCH LINES.
REAL BAD EXPERIENCE

[[deleted user]]

Moby Dick. There are very good reasons why this book is a classic, but even for Victorian literature, the book's length is measured not in the number of pages but just the raw tonage of verbiage. I had to wonder which was deeper; the ocean described in the book or just the incessant and never ending baroque prose that seems to drown the reader.

[Muddle head]

Guess i read the condensed edition, more than 10 years ago, loved it.
@hitesh, heard of that one and the hoppers too. Glad i didn't buy it :-)

[Lekshmy]

The witch of Portobello

[Debolina]

Looks like I got in the discussion quite late.but the books I couldnt finish were The God of small things and dreams's sake by jyoti arora (this was sent as a review copy but I still couldnt finish):yes,i find Nicholas Sparks quite sugary and happy'happy,quite makebelieve,not high on my preference list.

[Debolina]

A few awesome books that I have received for review and absolutely loved are Room by emma donoghue.between shades of grey.sarah's key.i feel u guys will like these titles.

[Ahtims]

I have Sarah's key with me. I have heard negative as well as positive comments about Room - maybe its a love/hate kind of book with no middle way about it.

[Debolina]

Yes smitha...room will only evoke extreme reactions frm readers.it can be at once claustrophobic,or free in a sense of spirit.but is sure an experience to read it..u can chk out the review in my profile..

[Harsha]

100years of solitude was a book i found very very difficult to finish.. it is supposed to be world class literature and all but somehow i couldn't quite digest it.. i don't know if the problem is with the problem is with the book or with me.. And The Golden Notebook by Doriss Lessing is a book i left halfway through.. And i haven't finished most of the non-fiction i have attempted..

[Anees]

Crash
Anyone read Crash by J.G.Ballard? What on earth is up with that book? I managed to get upto a hundred pages waiting for something to happen, but the thing refuses to go anywhere. Its just about guys going and causing massive accidents and getting off on it. Yet the blurb says "A classic work of cutting edge fiction, Crash explores the disturbing potentialities of contemporary society's increasing dependence on technology as intermediary in human relations." Even with all those big sounding words I did not understand, it was just random bits of dialogue and action, interspersed with a lot of porn. Anyone got any smart ideas?

[Preethi]

I could never finish God of Small Things :( In spite of several attempts, just cannot relate to the story.

[Abu]

Jyoti wrote: "I could not manage to read "Inheritance of Loss" by Kiran Desai. I wonder, either I am not meant for intelligent reading or the book is not intelligent.

and for all those who have "The FountainH..."

Kiran's book is long, but reality of the convergence of hopelessness and loss at the end leaves some readers in dismay. I see, as an author, too much colorized Indian and Bangladeshi literature today. All a bit too wonderful, and all things are Ok, or good or at a juncture of closure at the end. Truth can be revealing as well as entertaining, and that is the craft we should pursue, and not to be trite, but truth can be stranger, and more entertaining than fiction! Thus historical fiction. And there Amitav Gosh I admire-- such a treat.

[Rahul]

The white tiger........ God knows wat magic it did to win d coveted prize..... Didn't like it a bit..... Catch-22 wasn't able to catch me...... Playing for pizza was a total disapointment......

[Hajarath Prasad]

Ramakrishnan wrote: "hahaha most amusing; i tried reading fountainhead looooong back...couldnt finish it...but saw the movie and loved it; read atlash shrugged recently and loved it; i recommend you guys try fountainhe..."
dear me..thats one of the most pathbreaking books of all time..you will either agree it or lie to yourself..though the book is quite strange in its style,its really worth a read or two...

[Hajarath Prasad]

Chintan wrote: "atlas shrugged is one of the greatest ever"

yes..the fact that ayn rand doesn't like to sit on a wall makes her a darling or devil for people..

[Rahul]

I read The Fountainhead almost 7 years back........ One of my favourite books........

[[deleted user]]

Well, a book I didn't finish... the Bible... it's a good book, but I heard everyone dies in the end...

[Ahtims]

LOL.

[Mansee]

Craig wrote: "Well, a book I didn't finish... the Bible... it's a good book, but I heard everyone dies in the end..."

Lol

[Priya]

Craig wrote: "Well, a book I didn't finish... the Bible... it's a good book, but I heard everyone dies in the end..."

Mansee wrote: "Craig wrote: "Well, a book I didn't finish... the Bible... it's a good book, but I heard everyone dies in the end..."

Lol"
LOL

[Pritam]

Pride and Prejudice. Before you call me impudent, please note I thought it was a very difficult book for a man to read considering the plot and what it revolved around. I blame my sister for tricking me into even getting this book in the first place as back then (10 years ago - I was 15) I had no idea about the book. Pardon my ignorance!

[Chitralekha]

I couldn't complete The last Mughal by William Dalrymple. I wonder how my husband could finish it! I found it so dry and boring that just didn't have the patience to read further after reading may be 100 odd pages.

[Soujanya Murali]

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol! And no, I dint start reading this book after reading Namesake. Infact I was shocked to find a reference to Gogol in Namesake! I dint know he was a famous arthur at all.

This book tested my patience to the maximum and in the end I just gave up.

Such was the impact that I dint like Namesake also because it had Gogol in it :P

[dely]

Saisri wrote: "Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol! And no, I dint start reading this book after reading Namesake. Infact I was shocked to find a reference to Gogol in Namesake! I dint know he was a famous arthur at all...."

I'm reading it now and so far (100 pages) I'm liking it. But I am a Russian literature fan. With the Russians I suggest always to begin with the short stories to see if we like them. Only after this and if we liked them we can read masterpieces like Dead Souls.