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What Books Have You Turfed After You Started To Read Them?
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I started reading the following prior to their sending me into a coma of boredom so they were taken to the charity shop. They were Middlemarch, Catch 22, Mary Beard's history of Rome, Pickwick Papers, Coriolanus, Possession - to name but a few. You got any?
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Hi dance2trance (fab name btw!)
Good question,I read a lot but I honestly can't say what was the last book I didnt finish!
I have to say that I thought Catch 22 was excellent!
I also read Booker winner 'Milkman' before it won the big literary prize.
Now,I can understand people who didnt complete it because it's not an easy read with a writing style that features very long paragraphs and 'unnamed people'.The first 60pgs or so are quite heavy going I felt but thereafter I thought it was an excellent work of fiction concerning life during the Troubles.
Happy reading! X
Good question,I read a lot but I honestly can't say what was the last book I didnt finish!
I have to say that I thought Catch 22 was excellent!
I also read Booker winner 'Milkman' before it won the big literary prize.
Now,I can understand people who didnt complete it because it's not an easy read with a writing style that features very long paragraphs and 'unnamed people'.The first 60pgs or so are quite heavy going I felt but thereafter I thought it was an excellent work of fiction concerning life during the Troubles.
Happy reading! X
Now here is a literary critic I have long respected. Still waiting for my prize for guessing the signed copy you acquired from a controversial pariah in political asylum. :-) xxxx
//Hi dance2trance (fab name btw!)
Good question,I read a lot but I honestly can't say what was the last book I didnt finish!
I have to say that I thought Catch 22 was excellent!
I also read Booker winner 'Milkman' before it won the big literary prize.
Now,I can understand people who didnt complete it because it's not an easy read with a writing style that features very long paragraphs and 'unnamed people'.The first 60pgs or so are quite heavy going I felt but thereafter I thought it was an excellent work of fiction concerning life during the Troubles.//
50 shades was drivel, especially emotionally, as there was zilch. Marketing-wise, brilliant, and a lot of learning lessons for authors coming to the market, this endorsed to me by a friend of mine who was MD of two household paper-publishers.
Then I would add the Bible and Chris Patten's 'What Next' - almost as turgid as the Thatcher memoirs.
Then I would add the Bible and Chris Patten's 'What Next' - almost as turgid as the Thatcher memoirs.
‘The Satanic Verses’ by Salman Rushdie.
A recently published book I should have abandoned but didn’t, ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ by Heather Morris. If ever an author did a disservice to her profession it was Ms Morris. I wouldn’t even consider reading the sequel.
Loved The Shadow of the Wind, and the beautifully written 'The Book Thief' is utterly unforgettable – as is Pride and Prejudice, an eternal favourite.
A recently published book I should have abandoned but didn’t, ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ by Heather Morris. If ever an author did a disservice to her profession it was Ms Morris. I wouldn’t even consider reading the sequel.
Loved The Shadow of the Wind, and the beautifully written 'The Book Thief' is utterly unforgettable – as is Pride and Prejudice, an eternal favourite.
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