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The greatest book you just. couldn't. finish.

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We all have at least one.

For me, Joyce's Ulysses was my downfall.

Followed by Remembrance of Things Past.

Both were elliptical and I didn't connect with any of the characters or the underlying themes.

I still have them waiting my return on my shelf. And keep thinking that with years of experience now behind me and a different perspective on the world, I may take them up to pass the cold wintry days of my dotage.

What is the classic book or even more broadly, the author that brought your eyes to a halt?
 
Both by Stephen King.

I actually liked what I read of both these books and it more-so has to do with at the time, they just felt like such daunting books to finish. I am talking about IT and The Talisman. Again from what I read, I have enjoyed. I have enjoyed a few of his other works as well, it was just at the time I just couldn't and I knew if I forced myself to read it, I wouldn't enjoy it. I didn't want that to happen so I stopped.
 
Faggots by Larry Kramer, brilliant book that just assaults the senses.

You had to take long breaks from reading it, don't think i ever finished it.
 
All of the J.R.R. Tolkien Books - thankfully the movies filled me in on what I was missing.

I really tried - multiple times - just couldn't do it.
 
It took me forever, years ago...but I did finish "Testament of Youth," by Vera Brittain. It's a World War I memoir that was adapted into a Masterpiece Theater series. But it took me easily a year to finish. Then I discovered...she wrote two sequels.

I haven't even looked for them.
 
I always finish every book I start, unless it's obvious, within a chapter or so, that it's worthless rubbish or just isn't my 'thing'.

The only 'classic' that I have ever started reading and then abandoned is Lord of the Rings. All my friends read it back in the 70s when we were kids in school. But for some reason or other it just passed me by.

During the decades since then I must've tried reading it about a dozen times but I've never made it beyond the first chapter.

I feel like I would love to have read it just because it has been such a big influence on many of my favourite bands.

I even tried watching the first one of the films to see what all the fuss was about, but I fell asleep less than half way through.
 
Wuthering Heights. The prose parts are okay, but for the characters she tries to simulate in print those 19th century British country accents. I have no idea what that is supposed to sound like and the spelling is so screwed up it makes much of the dialogue unreadable. I finally put it down in frustration.
 
There is always hope that it can be done! Independent People by Haldor Laxness, it took me about 15 years and actually had to finish it as an audio book due to my lost of vision. The day I finished it was a very happy day. I still to finish Watership Down.
 
ClubLevelVegan said:
both by Stephen King
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I've read every King book. I couldn't finish Under the Dome.

I read Lord of the Flies, Watership Down, and LOTR several times each. I love those books. I've been thinking about rereading Watership Down as an adult to better understand its meaning.
 
Maklaar13 said:
There is always hope that it can be done! Independent People by Haldor Laxness, it took me about 15 years and actually had to finish it as an audio book due to my lost of vision. The day I finished it was a very happy day. I still to finish Watership Down.
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OMG. I love Watership Down and still count it in my top 10 books.
 
My problem is starting, nor finishing... and if I can not finish it, it is not a great book.

Maybe it could be a total pretentious bore :cool: :lol: :cool: like the LOTR 'saga' :rolleyes: (only browsed it, and was appalled by the total draught of literary style in the translation to Spanish... I know, I know all the shit about the LINGUISTIC creativity of Tolks, and I even had scanned and treasure a book about the languages if the Middle-earth... but the fact that I will abstain from starting that shat before other works, may account for my response to the OP.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-your-...ward-Ashford-1?ch=10&share=f4167505&srid=dxw0
 
OMG 584 pages to be read on a screen... as if I didn't spend enough time ... ok, I may try. Never used Scribd for that.

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Wait, there is a translation available for downloading :cool:
 
"He sido enviado en misión a las colonias de muchos planetas. Estoy acostumbrado a toda clase de crisis..." does it suffer much?
 
The Bible - dreadful book with poor organization and endless contradictory statements
 
^ Oh, so you are the kind who love academically perfect compositions above imperfect works of genius like, say, those of Shakespeare, or unfinished stumps like Byron's Don Juan... but then, are you of those who will not find perfect works interesting when they are composed in perfectly regular verse? :mrgreen:


Then, it is so limitative to be restricted to whatever has been published, translated or "original", in one single language...


Anyway, you know there are many versions of the Bible, with more or less books to choose from, especially if you do the selection according to original language... in any case, in the end, (according to some interpretations) Jesus fulfills the promise of jumping the shark by coming a second time, this one for good, so that the good people end up being saved and rewarded, while all the bad people get punished.
 
^ Yeah, the book is the writing, the "rhetoric", the "style"... but what's so special about it...
 
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Yes - DUNE. I got half way, then loss interest.
 
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