Can you be serious?

[Fran]

I'm either incredibly stubborn or stupid, but I have finished every single book that I opened. Allright, fine, except The Bible, I just didn't have it in me during my 16s to finish it.

Likewise Vogin but I go with stubborn ... it has resulted in me reading some incredible rubbish but if I start a book I always have to finish it. I have an unfailing belief that however bad the book is if I keep going for another chapter or another few pages the hidden brilliance will reveal itself!
Hope springs eternal but I guess there are worse obsessions

[Bighuey]

Ive got some books that I have started but if I find them boring or uninteresting I dont usually finish them. The Bible I think a person has to read it several times to get the full meaning. I heard the other day that Thomas Jefferson edited the Bible and had two copies printed that just had the words of Jesus and gave one copy to the senate and one to the congress, he claimed thats all a person needs to know. Too bad either one dosent go by that.

[StephenKingman]

I'm either incredibly stubborn or stupid, but I have finished every single book that I opened. Allright, fine, except The Bible, I just didn't have it in me during my 16s to finish it.

Likewise Vogin but I go with stubborn ... it has resulted in me reading some incredible rubbish but if I start a book I always have to finish it. I have an unfailing belief that however bad the book is if I keep going for another chapter or another few pages the hidden brilliance will reveal itself! Hope springs eternal but I guess there are worse obsessions

How was Catch 22 then Fran??

[Fran]

I'm either incredibly stubborn or stupid, but I have finished every single book that I opened. Allright, fine, except The Bible, I just didn't have it in me during my 16s to finish it.

Likewise Vogin but I go with stubborn ... it has resulted in me reading some incredible rubbish but if I start a book I always have to finish it. I have an unfailing belief that however bad the book is if I keep going for another chapter or another few pages the hidden brilliance will reveal itself! Hope springs eternal but I guess there are worse obsessions

How was Catch 22 then Fran??

Well I did finish it ... & I'm still waiting for the relevation of brilliance.

[Bighuey]

I guess this thread is as good as any to post this on. I just saw on the internet a cookbook that is coming out soon called Beyond Delicious by Mary Ann Winkowski the ghost hunter. Its a collection of recepies that she claimed that she got from spirits of the dead. Maybe its ghost food and the minute you stick a fork into it it would say boo and disappear.

[Chris from EnterTheStory]

Anything described as "searing," "gritty," "hard hitting" etc. I'm always seeing reviews for popular modern authors and I pick them up, and just can't see what the fuss is about. The stories are either hard to believe or dull, and usually far too long. Or maybe that's just me.

[DavidB52]

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
by Douglas Adams

In university, it seemed like everybody was reading this book. So after graduating I picked it up and started reading it. Unfortunately, I couldn't stand it. Normally, I am pretty anal about reading books, magazines, etc. cover to cover, but I could not do it with this book. Even the title was silly, something like "Part One of a Four-Part Trilogy". The whole thing struck me as a complete silly waste of time. So I stopped reading it and threw it out. I think it is the only book I have never finished in my whole life. I simply did not want to lie on my death bed later in life regretting the time I had wasted on that garbage.

I cannot believe they made a movie based on this book--to waste even more of people's time. Ick! I can't believe it!

[Chris from EnterTheStory]

I cannot believe they made a movie based on this book--to waste even more of people's time. Ick! I can't believe it!

I agree about the movie, just awful in every way. And the books were a bit disappointing (especially after he used up all his ideas in the first one), but the original radio show was good. As a radio show. IMO.

[KatieD]

The Source. I don't think I made it a third of the way through.

[tbughi1]

...I don't understand all the fuss over 'Harry Potter' books or 'Lord of the Rings' books either. Guess its just not my taste

I like Harry Potter, though I can't explain how it made it big over all the others. Lord of the Rings as well, I love the idea and concept but I can't even get through the first book.

[Tricia_McMillan]

The Alchemist... gag me. I read it based on a recommendation from a friend who said it changed her life, and after having heard the name various other places. Thankfully it was short, but definitely a chore to finish. Maybe I am way too cynical or logical or something, but I totally did NOT get the whole "big powerful spiritual message from the universe" that other people seem to have gotten. Waste of paper.

[n0ireclipse]

oh good gosh...Gulliver's travels. That book will forever go down in infamy for me

[Makenzie_fay]

Jane Eyre, The Great Gatsby, and To Kill A Mockingbird top my list. What can I say......I love British lit.

[Mister Missouri]

I wouldn't say I loathed either of these but, The Great Gatsby was a great disappointment. For all the hype, I found it lacking. Gatsby's love for Daisy didn't seem remarkable by any stretch and F. Scott Fitzgerald reads (or so I find) as being incredibly pretentious. I also found The Catcher in the Rye disappointing. A few good parts, maybe, but overall, the narrative was a lot of whining and although I have no qualms about the usage of vulgarity, I grew tired of reading the word 'goddamn' what seemed like every second paragraph.

The biggest turkey I came across was Wuthering Heights. I've been hearing what an excellent love story it is for years... Pah!

[Fran]

OMG I love both Wuthering Heights & The Great Gatsby aswell as lot of others by both authors ... but such is life, we all have our likes and dislikes