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

dance2trance | 11:09 Mon 07th Oct 2019 | Arts & Literature

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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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Arksided

Kiss your ass goodbye, a mystery detective 'thriller' (lol) whilst holidaying in Portugal, painful reading but didn't launch it, I stuck with it... One book over the past twenty years I started to re-read three times but never finished is Aldous Huxley - Brave new world. Have got about two thirds through it but always gets shelved... and I do like it.

elliemay1

Milkman by Anna Burns.

rockyracoon

Time Travellers Wife
50 Shades of whatever
Dorian Grey

elliemay1

^ P.S Has anyone read Milkman and enjoyed it?

Mamyalynne

The Invisible Man - H.G.Wells

Prudie

50 shades
and because they were forced upon me at school:
Anything by Dickens
The Kon Tiki Expedition
Pride and Prejudice (as a teenager, really should try again)

ichkeria

Pickwick Papers?
That’s a shame. It improves greatly after the first few chapters.
There was a book on Alan Turing I gave up on as I found it increasingly hard to understand.
And The Unnameable by Samuel Beckett, which I abandoned about halfway through several pages into one sentence.

rockyracoon

I forgot one, the worst one.
We Need to Talk About Kevin.
OMG verbal diarrhoea

woofgang

way too many to list

davebro

Ulysses
100 years of Solitude
Trainspotting

ichkeria

Ulysses is wonderful.
Finnegans Wake on the other hand can be added to the list.
I didn’t mind One Hundred Years: most of the characters seem to be called Aurelio tho which was a bit confusing :-)

Ken4155

I am a Stephen King freak but i just cannot get into 'From A Buick 8'. I've tried numerous times, reaching about a 3rd of the way in, but it's just not gripping me. I haven't thrown it out though as i'm assured by a few friends that it is (eventually) a good read.

One other reason for my persistence is that, back in the mid 70s, i tried to read Mario Puzo's 'The Godfather', only to find that equally as difficult to get a grip on. So i 'shelved' it. About a year later, i watched the film and enjoyed it tremendously. So i took the book up again and almost read it all in one sitting.