Book you never finished

[creynier]

Middlesex. My husband read it and said it was fantastic but for some reason, I would get bored and begin to daydream after about a page of the book every time I picked it up. I guess it just wasn't meant to be.

[Mkeyth]

Stephen King's It. I read 3/4, watched the film on TV and din't like the ending, so I put away the book.

[theSarayiahpost]

I never finished The Bourne Ultimatum. Got to half way through - totally different to the film.

[BeDaring]

I couldn't get to the end of the 4th Harry Potter book. I read it when it first came out and even with all the hype I just found JK Rowling so boring. Her books just went on and on and most time I just felt like she could get to the point in a more concise way!

[AmandaRose]

I started reading "Why is God Laughing?" by Deepak Chopra. It was good and certainly interesting, but I started reading another book around the same time and got caught up in it. I'll probably go back to reading it once I finish my current book; it seems like it will be worth it.

[tonya10057]

The last hunger games book,I couldn't really get into it for some reason.

[laci_baby]

The last hunger games book,I couldn't really get into it for some reason.

Though i loved the first one, and was alright with the second one, the third one sorta lost me too. Justwasnt what i was expecting, therefor making me lose interest i suppose.

Treasure Island. I've tried so many times, but i just cant.

[RoseOfTheDawn]

I just could not finish the Bible! I couldn't even get properly started!

[stevethegirl]

Tender is the night, it was just too hard to force myself to pick it up!

[eris42]

I never got to finish the last eight pages of The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. I had rented a hut on a beach in Thailand and, on arriving, chose the thickest book on the shelf of the lounge's book exchange. I couldn't put it down and for the next 48 hours, outside of the occasional conversation on the beach with other travelers, that book and the beach were my only world.

Unfortunately I had misread my flight information and had fallen asleep the night before my departure thinking I still had the next morning to finish the book. On waking, however, I double checked and it turned out I was late. I thought about leaving behind one of the books I had just bought to bring back to Indonesia with me in exchange, but second hand English language books did not exist on the island I was living on and I didn't feel like lugging around a 600 page book just to finish the last eight, so I left it behind, unfinished.

This question itself reminded me of a documentary I saw about ten years ago called The Stone Reader. A book that remains unfinished, barely begun in fact, later becomes something of an obsession for the filmmaker. I recommend it as a must see for any bibliophile.

[Freethinker]

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Wolf and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.

Started both of them twice and can barely make it a third of the way through before I give up.

[alwaysreading09]

House of leaves. My friend told me to take it and read it. I tried and just couldnt do it. I tried to give it back and she insisted that no matter how long it took i needed to keep it and finish it. Its been almost 4 years now and I still have this book lol. Not sure she will ever get it back. I always tell her I will bring it but she refuses.

[rekha123]

Sherlock holmes! Such a huge book with lots of strategies!

[Carrie R]

I couldn't finish a couple of the more recent Patricia Cornwell books, which is a shame, because I used to love her work.

[Happily Candied]

I've never finished Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex. It's a shame, too, because The Virgin Suicides changed my life when I was younger. I started reading the award winning book at least six times, each time getting just a little bit farther into the book. Every attempt was made when I was in college though, and looking back now, I'm almost certain that all of my official school reading assignments are what caused me to never finish the book. I hate getting sidetracked!

I have a lot more personal time these days so Middlesex is back on my to-read list. (The Marriage Plot, Eugenides' third novel, is also on the list.) The list is long though, so I probably won't get to it for a while.