Book you never finished

[RGarcia151171]

On Beauty by Zadie Smith
It wasn't a page turner and had so much overdone dialect and the characters fell short. I never wanted to pick it up again after I had read a good 40 pages.

[Zoe303]

Pride And Prejudice and Persuasion by Jane Austen.

All I remember when I tried to read them is that I didn't understand a thing, I'm not sure why though. But now I decided to reread Pride and Prejudice and see if it was really that incomprehensible.

[sillysue82]

A Brave New World.

I know. It's suppose to be amazing, so says everyone in every English college course I've ever taken. But each time I try to read it, the prosaic atmosphere of the book engulfs my brain, and mini-Sue up there starts thinking about other books, and fruits.

[VinuW]

The Lord of the Rings. I started reading it twice, but never made it to the end.

[Serena_Charlotte]

I have tried over and over again to finish pride and prejudice but I can never really get into it. I have read many long excerpts from the book but I don't think I've actually seen all of it and I couldn't tell you the plot if I was asked.

[Redlegs]

I normally finish every book I read, but I couldn't get past about page 80 in Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce. I had no idea what was going on.

[Ama Idim]

Got so many books like that... I think my goal for the rest of the year should be to finish any unfinished books...I'll Probably start with 'Tell me now, and again'.

[IanYanny]

The Lord of the Rings. I started reading it twice, but never made it to the end.

I tried reading this too. Sadly, I didn't even made it to 1/8 of the book. After a while I decided to give it to a friend as a gift.

[yoana]

I never finished 'Obsidian' by Jennifer L. Armentrout (Lux, #1). I found the main characters very annoying and boring. After 70 pages I gave up.

[Star88]

I could not finish Amusing Ourselves to Death. I had to read it for an English class. It was so dry and boring! Most of it seemed irrelevant to today. It was written for the 60s, I think.

[hey_juils]

Wuthering Heights. I just couldn't stand the characters.

[Brandi Noelle]

"A Tale of Two Cities" - Charles Dickens

I found it to be terribly boring. I was supposed to write a paper on it, too, but just couldn't get through it. I ended up skimming the Cliff's Notes. Luckily, I'm a writer, so faking my way through a paper on it was a piece of cake. I got an A.

[PABS]

I have two on this list: Ulysses by Joyce and Remembrance of Things Past by Proust. Joyce's work had me all confused, and Proust's sentences that went on for pages had me begging for mercy.

[a9436]

The first Harry Potter book - I tried it out of curiosity because of the hype, but it just was not my style.

[Julie Green]

War and Peace. I've started it several times. It is unusual for me not to finish a book but that one I just can't seem to get through.

Me too. I wasn't well at the time so thought it would be a good time to read this one. I had made it more than halfway through, then I recovered and I just couldn't face the rest of the book!