I Have No Intention Of Ever Reading ...

[joggerjayne]

Inspired by adrianben's thread below, and giveup's thread about who has read Les Miserables ...

Books you keep telling yourself you will get round to reading ...

And books you have no intention of ever bothering with ...

One day, I will get round to reading ...

Proust - Remembrance of Times Past, or Lost, etc

War and Peace

I have no intention of ever bothering with ...

Les Miserables

Any more Dickens, or Austin

[gness]

Askyourgran has just posted my words. Three people bought me Angela's sodding Ashes because I'm Irish.

[sherrardk]

Methyl, lost me. I am of the 'calling a spade a shovel' school.

[Flyhalf]

Ecclescake and others - I intended this as a present for a friend, who indicated books were not his favourite gifts, and kept it.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cheats-Guide-Classics-Bounty-Books/dp/0753708140

[zebo]

Any Tolkein, I tried The Hobbit many years ago, I even bought it for OH on LP, that's how long ago, but couldn't even listen to it. My record for the Lord of the Rings DVDs is 10 minutes of the first one!

[DaisyNonna]

Zebo, thank goodness. I was beginning to think I was a freak. Have tried to read Tolkein but failed.

[tamborine]

any Harry Potter junk

[andy-hughes]

I am also seriously cautious about hyped books / films . anything - but don't let it put you off the Reacher novels of Lee Childs. The release of the Tom Cruise (snort!) film has increased their profile, but they are an excellent read.

[JMR27]

I read Les Miserables in French at school. Tried to read War and Peace but couldn't get past half way down page 2 - couldn't remember who was who.
Would never read Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings (mr j's favourite book).

[LyndaB]

Well I absolutely loved the Harry Potter books and can't understand why people would turn their noses up at them, they are very well written. I have read quite a few classics in my time, I love Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell. I also love Shakespeare and have read a number of his works. I won't read what I call Morbid Memoirs (I was abused and beaten as a child so I'm going to write all about it and make a fortune blah blah blah), in fact I'm not keen on any kind of biography - I like fiction. And I refuse to read any books "written" by Katie Price on the grounds that if she wrote them, then I'm an astronaut!

[DTCwordfan]

Dickens at O level - Oliver Twisted, Macbeth for Shakespeare but that was ok.

My list would include Dostoevsky, John Stuart Mill, anything like the Da Vinci so predictable, Hugo, Solzhenitsyn (immediate depression), and most sci-fi (though I like Asimov - and Mr Adams).

[daffy654]

50 Shades
Harry Potter
Twilight
Any Dickens novel
War and Peace
Jane Austen
If it's not a horror or crime thriller i'm never going to read it!

[RATTER15]

I would just love to be able to read a book, Ive read around 6 books in my life. My dyslexia means I get lost on every single page and nothing makes any sense!

The books I have read are usually fact based, they are not usually as complicated.

Very frustrating!!!

[seadogg]

When I was given an abridged version of "Les Miserables" at age 10 it seemed a strange name for a bloke (best mate was called "Les").
Stendahl's "Charterhouse at Parma" was a tough piece of ham to get through, though a good plot.

[Rosetta]

I have had real problems with Thomas Hardy, I have tried and failed. I hate giving up on a book, my most memorable failure was "Snow falling on Cedars". Tried it 4 or 5 times but didnt get beyond the first ten or so chapters. Fell in love with the title but the book was so boring