What Books Have You Turfed After You Started To Read Them?

[dance2trance]

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?

[Denton]

The Bible,didn’t understand it.

[agchristie]

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

[Vagus]

Angela’s ruddy Ashes, what a load of tripe, reads like it’s written by a twelve year old.

[retrocop]

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.//

[agchristie]

Awwww thanx retro! ;-)

[retrocop]

Most welcome. Keep reading and keep us amused. Most Important. Keep well. Love your input.

[agchristie]

Retro, thanx for being such a fan! Im very touched (ahem!!) ;-)

*Still perspiring but trying for inspiring.

Will I achieve it? No sweat!!! X

[retrocop]

//Will I achieve it? No sweat!!! X//

Horses sweat
Men Perspire
Ladies Water.
:-)

[agchristie]

As your avatar would say retro:

"Actually, I think that's really awfully nice of you" x

[jourdain2]

Very few that I don't stick with, but one sticks in my mind. 'Portrait of the artist as a young horse' by someone I can't remember, Sean Casey or something equally Irish. I think I lasted 5 chapters before deciding life was too short.

[andy-hughes]

retrocop - // Horses sweat
Men Perspire
Ladies Water. //

I always heard that as 'ladies glow' - which personally I prefer.

[retrocop]

Horses for Courses I suppose. An expression I learnt from a Scottish MIL.

[DTCwordfan]

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.

[ichkeria]

What I’m getting from these answers is that Irish literature doesn’t seem to cross the sea too well :-)

[rockyracoon]

Bram Stoker did. Dracula was one of the best books I’ve ever read

[LadyCG]

The Book Thief and The Shadow of the Wind left me cold.

[LadyCG]

And Ken Follet's World Without End.

[Coppit]

Tora Tora Tora. I found Hague's Wilberforce very dull; too many lengthy paragraphs. Strange as he's such an amusing speaker.

[naomi24]

‘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.

[ichkeria]

Just in case, I googled or tried to “Portrait of the artist as a young horse” :-)

Someone should write that book ...