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I started reading The New Digital Age. unable to get past the fast chapter till date!
Thevow. The autobiography of Gandhiji.
The lost symbol.
The lost symbol.
I am from Kerala and I couldn't finish 'The God of Small Things'.(yeah, the story and the author are from here and it won a booker) sigh!
Rob wrote: "I am from Kerala and I couldn't finish 'The God of Small Things'.(yeah, the story and the author are from here and it won a booker) sigh!"Rob, just wondering, what put you off reading "The God of Small Things"?
I just can't get myself to continue reading this:
It feels like a rip-off of:
I can't ignore the similarity between the two books - the titles, the theme, even the alternating mother-daughter chapters.
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I am bored stiff reading Jane Smiley's A Thousand acres and am amazed how I have actually made through two-third of it.
BetweentheCovers wrote: "Rob wrote: "I am from Kerala and I couldn't finish 'The God of Small Things'.(yeah, the story and the author are from here and it won a booker) sigh!"
Rob, just wondering, what put you off reading..."
I don't know. It was dull and maybe I was fed up of running towards the dictionary too often.
Rob, just wondering, what put you off reading..."
I don't know. It was dull and maybe I was fed up of running towards the dictionary too often.
Fifty shades of grey.....The worst book ever!
I saw my friends reading it. Thought to give ot a try.
But, Until it was just story, when the dirty part came, there was no choice but to forward too the story part ather than the bad sexual writing! :/
It was related to psychology of a man. So I wanted to complete reading the book.
But I just turned pages when there was nothibg other than those stuff.
After turning all such pages, still I felt suffocated.
I took three days to complete approx 40-50 pages only. (yes the book was disgusting! only these much pages had real story!)
Then I came to know that was just begining. It had two mire books. Fifty shades darker was Good! Not much dirty stuff.
All was story related.
I couldn't read the third one.
Let me tell you, it's a Psycho Book! Most characters are psycho. Full of jealousy, dom-sub sh*t etc!
WORST BOOK EVER!!!!
(ps I didn't know it was supposed to be of that genre when I started reading it. I sae few friends reading it. And it was te most popular, best selling book! So I had considered reading :/ )
Lavanya wrote: "I have heard similar reviews."
Yes. Horrible. I quitted the reading in the third book as it was like the first one. Screwed up.
I just couldn't read more than a few pages of The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai. Somehow just could not go through the torture of reading this book.Another one as mentioned above is the Fifty Shades series.. couldn't get through more than a few pages of the first book - dumped the entire series!! It was total rubbish.
War and Peace was another book that I could not finish or even move beyond a few pages. However, I do have it on my TBR for this year.. hope I finish it this time :)
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(shows how varied tastes are :P)
ditto to War and Peace and Fifty shades book 1 (was scandalized and squirmish... :O)
Oh my God, Fifty Shades of Grey was gross! I literally couldn't stop gagging after every page, it has to be the most offending book in the 21st century! I hate the fact how a woman wrote this book, glorifying the demoralisation of women. (I didn't finish this book)Not to forget Beautiful Disaster which is a class apart. Honestly it has the most stupidly portrayed characters in writing history. (I finished this with a look of disgust on my face)
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The Oath of vayuputras....started reading then realised that i have to go back to meluha & the nagas as it has been a long time(almost a year) and I don't remember most of it....Will go through all three of them one after another sometime later...
The thirteenth tale by Diane Setterfield. i had loved the story line and it took me many an effort to get my hands on this book. But there is something immensely disturbing in this gothic novel. Even though i wanted to know the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale i could not go forward and i hate myself when i leave a book unfinished. maybe I will come back to it some other time.
Rebecca wrote: "The thirteenth tale by Diane Setterfield. i had loved the story line and it took me many an effort to get my hands on this book. But there is something immensely disturbing in this gothic novel. Ev..."I didn't like it that much too, I gave it only 2 stars because I was able to finish it.
It is an engrossing book and you want to know what happens but at the end there are a lot of unresolved things. After a while I had also enough of the main character who was always thinking about her twin, it was really too much for my tastes!
Catch22,,left it at the same point after I tried to read it again. The godfather too. I guess mafia isn't for me.. And yeah years of solitude b Gabriel garcia marquez... And deception point by Dan brown
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Lolita - The book made me sick. I know that is probably the whole point, and that I should appreciate Nabokov's genius in his effort at getting into the psyche of a pedophile, etc., I couldn't. Not a single line in the book was humour for me, nor did I for the faintest moment sympathize with Humbert. May be I feel too strongly on these topics, but I wouldn't ever recommend this book to anyone. In my view, the most overrated book of all time.
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I started reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' with the expectation that I'd be wiser...just like all the other folks who had been going ga-ga over it.I forced myself to complete it, and I know that I should be wiser now.
I know several years later that it is still working its magic inside me (just like potent medicine) and the wisdom will kick in any moment now.
Nah...I still have no clue what it was all about.
I guess I'll remain shallow for life.
For me it would have to be The Fountainhead. I couldn't go beyond a point and I just gave up. I plan to read it again sometime later because I am curious as to why others give it so much attention.
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco :-\ :-\
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Gagged over both sands of time and stranger in the mirror by sidney sheldon.. blech !!
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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy..... only book i started and could not finish
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The Diary of a young girl. Anne Frank.I can't bring myself to read it. finished just one third.
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Anne Frank's diary is one book that has reduced me into tears. I've read it 2-3 times too.I think in this thread I previously mentioned Marquez's books and now I have to correct myself. I re-read 100 years and read Love in the times of cholera and liked both! I don't know why I didn't like 100 years the first time, but when I read it again I felt so enthralled by it!
Lol Smitha! :)I was really unable to finish. I'll. try to read it again now.
Midnight's Children :/ Tried 4 times unsuccessfully :/ :/
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Hajarath Prasad wrote: "Midnight's Children :/ Tried 4 times unsuccessfully :/ :/"Why? I wanted to read it so I'm curious to know what you didn't like of this book.
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Several actually :(Didn't like (okay please don't kill me for this list)
Wuthering Heights
Emma
The God of Small Things
Love in the time of Cholera
all and any of Chetan Bhagat books.. MEH!!!
Couldn't finish
Fifty Shades of Grey -- Total MEH!
Shantaram - Although I am planning to get to it some day!
The Inheritance of Loss - Just don't know what the hype is about as I couldn't seem to progress more than a few pages and even that I was totally irritated..
Midnight's Children - Too much rambling and somehow did not find the language or style too great.
Psmith wrote: "dely, you may like it. It probably will fit into your taste (am not very sure, just making an educated guess here) :-)"Thanks, I will surely check it out.
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