"great" Books, That You Should Read But Somehow Can't !

[mikey4444]

For me, its "The Catcher in the Rye"

This book has been recommended by many people over the years, but I just can't seem to get past the first few pages. My loss I am sure.

[Peter Pedant]

so you could answr tonights university cack-up question
which Dickens novel is mentioned in the first para of catcher in the rye

[david copperfield]

[mikey4444]

Actually, I got that right ( albeit a tad slower that that brainy student did ! )

[Mamyalynne]

I could never get far into The Invisible Man - H G Wells, eventually gave up trying.

[Peter Pedant]

walter scott
tried a few
waverley novels mainly - required school reading in the twenties apparently
Managed to get thro Kenilworth - because I wanted to see how he treated "luckless Amy Robsart" - historically she is chucked down a flight of stairs to allow Essex to marry Elizabeth
( 'aaaah' at the end of chap 6)

[horselady]

To Kill a Mockingbird for me, attempted it several times but just can't get into it.

[andy-hughes]

Lord Of The Rings - it simply doesn't hold my attention past two pages.

The parish priest who married the present Mrs Hughes and I was John Tolkien, eldest son of the professor, so I had to enthuse politely about his father's works even though I only read The Hobbit.

[Cloverjo]

Lord of the Rings, too, like andy. Just can't do it. I fell asleep in the cinema when I took my son to see the films.

[mikey4444]

Jo....you must be a very heavy sleeper, as the LOTR films were the noisiest that I have seen seen !

[maggiebee]

Lord of the Rings - one of my all time favourites. Read the first two books and finished book two around midnight. Jumped into my car and drove to a 24 hour Tesco to buy book three - just had to know what happened next. Have read the trilogy many times and always find something new.

[-Talbot-]

Any fictitious book.

[mikey4444]

Maggie....I first read the LOTR when I was about 16. I as so taken with the trilogy, that as soon as I finished Book 3, I started on Book 1 again !

For many years, I had the Penguin edition of "Ulysses" by James Joyce, on my bedside table.

It never failed to cure any bout of insomnia.

As a young boy, Aunts used to thrust "The Water Babies" by Charles Kingsley into my unwilling hands........I have always hated it !