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 Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 11:25 am
"Eragon. I read all of two pages into and simply couldn't go any farther. It wasn't bad, per se, I just couldn't do it. It was the same with To Kill a Mockingbird, I couldn't get past the second page. After I tried it again though, I finished it just fine."
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Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 2:44 pm
"Shipwrecked". I couldn't bear to finish it.
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Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 4:54 am
yes it happens a lot one book of alma alexander (can't belive I remember her name) it was horrable and a book I tried to read long time ago I think it was called house of the silver crown or something like it.
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 7:53 am
Liete_of_Alent Most recently it was it was The Talisman by Stephen King and another writer whose name escaped me. Couldn't get into that book to save my life. They completely failed in making me give the slightest of cares towards the main character and the plot was so akin to the Dark Tower series that I just gave up, which isn't something I do lightly. Luckily, I have a friend who is one of the biggest Stephen King fanatics I've ever met (I still love him though), so I gave it to him. I couldn't finish this one either. I'm not sure what it was about it, because I can usually push my way through everything I start, and I almost got to the end, but I just gave up. I completely just lost interest.
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Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 7:53 pm
I can only think of one book I started but absolutely couldn't finish. (I believe I did actually get so frustrated at one point I really did throw it against a wall.)
Usually I don't give up on books though, even if they're so terribly boring I want to cry. Usually I figure I'm not in the mood for that kind of book and put it down to pick back up later.
The one book I never finished and never plan on finishing is Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. I had to read it for school and figured it wouldn't be that bad but half way through the book I was absolutely sick of it and couldn't go a page further, no matter how hard I pushed myself.
Yukio-Vil: Gary Paulson is the one who wrote Hatchet, right? If he is a totally agree with you! I despised that book so much, I read it but I absolutely hated it.
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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 6:57 am
red_moon_wolfess I have only actualy ever done that once. Usualy no matter how poor the book is how uneventful it may be I have to finish it only to know how it ends, or in the hopes that at least they thaught their ending through... The book I absolutely had to put down was "The silver Kiss". A lot of my friends had read it and thaught it amazing, so I figured 'why not?' turns out that even the most eventful parts of the book had me stoping to daydream about some semi-related event. And despite the fact that it was probably only a third the size of the smallest books that I regularly read I had to put it down, and rather than finish the last few chapters I returned it to the library and asked my friend for a summery of the end. I agree with that one. I got it sometime last spring, and I haven't picked it up since june. It was just too boring.
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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 3:17 pm
Eldest, i started reading it, but then i just couldn't finish it.....i think i didn't even managed to get to the end of chapter one.
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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:48 am
"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
Dorothy Parker
US author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 - 1967)
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Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 4:18 pm
Eragon. It was just so full of cliches, and so boring. It felt like nothing happened.
And I am aware I might be the only one to know this guy, but Nickolaus Pacione (Whispers in the Chapel, 'youth pastor's hypocrisy' and others).
Just...no. His punctuation style could be considered bold and innovative, if you're feeling generous. (I'm really not.)
Even then, I could never figure out what it was he was saying through all the descriptions and the babble.
Just because e. e. cummings can ignore his shift key doesn't mean you can.
I'd give a quick snippet, but I'm not sure if that's covered in the rules.
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Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 6:25 pm
I just could not finish The Green Mile. Normally I love Stephen King, but God that book was unbearable. All it talks about in the beginning is this man's groin problems.
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Supernatural Manifestation
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 6:19 pm
I'm having a horrible time of advancing in Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi. All this talk of being a river pilot and what needs to be done. I find it very dull and tedious to get through. Sometimes I wonder if I'll ever get through it.
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 10:45 am
I abandon books all the time..if it's "meiocre" I don't bother reading unless it grips me right from the start.
The very worst books I've read though are:
Postcards by Annie Proulx (unfortunately I had to read it for English so I couldn't ditch it)
Labryinth by Kate Mosse...that book was a bestseller..and I can't believe it..I wondered whether it was a children's book..but it isn't! I just thought the language was so simple..it was honestly like a children's book..it was absolute rubbish to me.
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 4:13 pm
I hate to sound repetitive, but I just COULDN'T finish Eragon. Fantasy books aren't normally my think, hence this book was pure toture and I never got past page 140.
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 8:55 pm
I couldn't finish "A place called Saturday" by Mary Astor. It was just to dull, I tried it a few years ago and just couldn't get through it. The other book I couldn't stand was "A Tale of Two Cities" that is what happens when you pay someone by the word, ugg.
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