LIST books you abandoned?

[Jennifer]

I’ve started listening to Steppenwolf on audiobook. On chapter two about 3/4 through but really not sure I will finish. I’m finding it really dull and almost completely without a story line....has anyone else found this? Does it get better?

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Orlando by Virginia Woolf. I know a lot of people really like this, and I liked To The Lighthouse quite a bit, but this one seemed to exist simply as a vehicle of private exchange between Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. I never could sense any purpose behind it other than as a kind of in-joke between the two.

[Damien]

I've put some on hold while I've been reading other things (Moby Dick is a good example of this), and I haven't really given up on any, as such, but I did get so sick of Little Women that I ended up switching to an audiobook instead so it could be fired into my brain without me needing to use any effort. I've never had a sister, but it felt like having four of the most irritating sisters in the world and I just wanted it to stop.

[Carol]

Judith wrote: "I thought of another one I ended up scanning:

Gargantua and Pantagruel

Once I got the gist, I had no further need for any more of the rude, crude and socially unacceptable humor of t..."

I had the exact same experiance

[Hannah]

Mrs Dalloway (didn't like the writing style)
Crime and punishment (will try again)
The dispossessed (I don't think I was in the right mindset to delve into it, so will try again)
Blood Meridian
Tropic of cancer was awful.

[Kim]

Foucault's Pendulum about 30+ years ago. At some point, I want to try again!

[Phil]

Infinite Jest, and Nightwood

[Kimberly]

Fiction:
Migrations
Andersonville
The Caretaker
I'll Go to Bed at Noon

Nonfiction:
How to Tell When You're Tired: A Brief Examination of Work
The Theory of the Leisure Class
Teddy and Booker T.: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality the author writes as if he knew what the people were were thinking to the point of making up conversations.
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave

[Rose]

Kimberly wrote: "Fiction:
Migrations
Andersonville
The Caretaker
I'll Go to Bed at Noon

Nonfiction:
[book:How to Tell When You're Tired: A Brief Examinati..."

Are these 1001 books?

[Yrinsyde]

I tried reading Vanity Fair but got a little tired of the avuncular voice. I'll try again in a year or two.

[Rebekah]

The Satanic Verses
I’ve tried twice to read this book and I just can’t get into it. It’s so confusing what is happening and then I get bored. Maybe if I have read every other book on the list and all the ones on my TBR (a couple thousand!), i might try. I won’t be dead by then since I will still have this one book I have to read before I die so I have plenty of time.