Books you could never finish..

[pedro]

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The Merits of the Da vinci Code we can debate elsewhere but the other Dan Brown books I found a very good read especially if you like a good conspiracy theory

[andria]

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. Is Shop-a-holic a recent book? Had a feeling I had read that, a while back, just checked, but cannot see it amongst all my other books (and there are loads lol).

Shop-a-holic and baby is the latest in a series of about 4 or 5 I think, have read the others too.

[bumblelady]

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any steven kings ones, got quarter way through then get to scared and get nightmares

[Wil]

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Shardik from Richard 'Watership Down' Adams. It had a great pencil drawing of a giant bear on the cover and I bought it (and a box set of three Asimov sci-fi paperbacks) with some Christmas money in '74 (I was 10) but just seemed far too dense for me.

I never finished the Asimov books, either but they had great Chris Foss artwork

[shaun]

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The Bible aswell,Always started it with good intentions when i was a kid but never got more than half way through it.It ended up being the book i used sit my alarm clock on..lol

[ceg56]

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Halfway through it!!!

That was pretty good for a kid though!!


Book I bought ages ago and was really interested in reading but could never read more than a few chapters of was " Savage Girls and Wild Boys" by Michael Newton.

Book about children bought up by animals or survived in the wild

[Trickyvee]

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Lord of the rings defeated me. I was determined to get through my three book set, but gave up half way through the last book.
I love Marian Keyes but couldn't get into her last book. Got it for Christmas last year and I only got a few chapters in.

[Richard1978]

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I've managed to read all of LOTR without much trouble, though I did cheat slightly by seeing the first 2 films before starting on the books.

Almost the same with The Devil Wears Prada, though there's a lot in the book that's not included in he film.

The book I've most recently had trouble with was Robinson Crusoe, the story is easy to follow but the copy I have has the text printed very small & close together, so it's an effort to read much of it at a time.

[Trickyvee]

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The Devil Wears Prada book is much better than the film, although I still liked the film. I also saw it before I read the book.

[Grosh62]

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The Never Ending Story by Michael Ende.... it just didn't seem right to finish it.

[AmethystWitch]

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I am also one of the LOTR book readers that never actually finished reading it....also with 'The Hobbit', don't think I ever finished that either.....lol

[darren]

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The Never Ending Story by Michael Ende.... it just didn't seem right to finish it.

i can see what you mean mate.
never knew there was a book of it.

great film/book though.

[darren]

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a book i could never finish was the third part of the lord of the rings.

back then the third part return of the king was a far thicker soft back book than it is now.
Perhaps a lot of it is not included like it was back then.

[victorbrunswick]

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Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. And often it's not unusual for me to read an entire book, cover to cover, in one afternoon or evening.

[staffslad]

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Lots of posts on the LOTR series. I tried The Hobbit once. It was on cassette from the library. I listened for 5 minutes and turned it off. Same with one of the Terry Pratchett books...Witch's Brew or something like that.

Some of the Stephen King's are okay but the huge ones I don't even bother with anymore.