softfilter Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 (edited) For whatever reason has there been books you thought would interest you, but once you struggled reading through chapter after chapter ... Decided i can't do it,and never return to again. One that come to mind for me is, http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b216/spirit3trails/9780140157345H.jpg At Dawn we slept by Gordon Prange. A monsterous detailed study of Pearl Harbor 738 pages. This account leans toward that perhaps the president of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt was aware that a Japanese attack on Hawaii was going to take place several years before it actually happened. Intriguing to a point much evidence is there to support claims US government knew of the threat. But theres way to much layered diplomatic chess games going on here the reader has to cipher through to connect the complete story. For me Prange could of left out some of this which was mostly back ground material and doesen't add anything to the understanding of this tragic event. In other words half way through bogged down by diplomatic cat and mouse no action yet, bored I gave up, I quit !!! Edited February 2, 2008 by softfilter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janie Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 It pains me to no end when I can't finish a book. I'll do whatever it takes to plow through one BUT there have been two books I just could not finish. Barbary Shore (Norman Mailer) and Beloved (Toni Morrison) So I went and dragged them out of hiding from the bookshelves. By the amount of coffee mug stains on the cover of Barbary Shore, I obviously had it out for a decent length of time, trying to finish it but then gave up and started using it as a coaster. Beloved I tried re-reading twice but found myself having a hard time keeping track of the characters or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Aubrey Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 Most recently it was Ken Burns' The War. I think Burns is a fine documentarian, but the good press this guy always gets has gone to his head. The underlying message of The War is: "World War II was justified because Ken Burns thinks it was". Dude, give the ego a rest and focus on the accounts of the soldiers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Test4VitalSigns Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 QUOTE (Jack Aubrey @ Feb 2 2008, 08:49 AM) Most recently it was Ken Burns' The War. I think Burns is a fine documentarian, but the good press this guy always gets has gone to his head. The underlying message of The War is: "World War II was justified because Ken Burns thinks it was". Dude, give the ego a rest and focus on the accounts of the soldiers. Gee I hope the documentary itself is not like that..I'm going to start watching it this week sometime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Aubrey Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 QUOTE (Test4VitalSigns @ Feb 2 2008, 09:53 AM) QUOTE (Jack Aubrey @ Feb 2 2008, 08:49 AM) Most recently it was Ken Burns' The War. I think Burns is a fine documentarian, but the good press this guy always gets has gone to his head. The underlying message of The War is: "World War II was justified because Ken Burns thinks it was". Dude, give the ego a rest and focus on the accounts of the soldiers. Gee I hope the documentary itself is not like that..I'm going to start watching it this week sometime. Don't worry, it's not. Just avoid the book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Test4VitalSigns Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 QUOTE (Jack Aubrey @ Feb 2 2008, 09:00 AM) QUOTE (Test4VitalSigns @ Feb 2 2008, 09:53 AM) QUOTE (Jack Aubrey @ Feb 2 2008, 08:49 AM) Most recently it was Ken Burns' The War. I think Burns is a fine documentarian, but the good press this guy always gets has gone to his head. The underlying message of The War is: "World War II was justified because Ken Burns thinks it was". Dude, give the ego a rest and focus on the accounts of the soldiers. Gee I hope the documentary itself is not like that..I'm going to start watching it this week sometime. Don't worry, it's not. Just avoid the book. gotcha Never really bothered with the books for his other docs anyways Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostGirl Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 QUOTE (Jack Aubrey @ Feb 2 2008, 08:00 AM) QUOTE (Test4VitalSigns @ Feb 2 2008, 09:53 AM) QUOTE (Jack Aubrey @ Feb 2 2008, 08:49 AM) Most recently it was Ken Burns' The War. I think Burns is a fine documentarian, but the good press this guy always gets has gone to his head. The underlying message of The War is: "World War II was justified because Ken Burns thinks it was". Dude, give the ego a rest and focus on the accounts of the soldiers. Gee I hope the documentary itself is not like that..I'm going to start watching it this week sometime. Don't worry, it's not. Just avoid the book. I didn't even know there WAS a book. The documentary is amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowdog Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 Dare I say it??? The Masked Rider. I couldn't finish it. I've read all of his other books, but I never could finish TMR. Let the flogging begin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daneel2112 Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 There is only one so far. A horror story called Havelock Junction by Joe Donnelly. I tried for 4 months but it is one of the worst books I have (almost) read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRocinanteKid Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 A Michael Connolly book called Echo Park was the last one I remember. Read about three chapters and couldn't take it anymore. Bland as hell. Countless times for school I've been asked to read Shakespeare plays and ended up on the internet finding out the storyline and writing my essay based on that and a few random quotes that I find by flicking through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadwing2112 Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 I have been trying to finish War of the Worlds, but I just can't for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Territorial_Game Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 Great Expectations.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandalorian Hunter Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 The Silmarillion. I really couldn't get into it. Might try again soon. Either that or half of the books for my degree. Some of those are the most tedious things i have ever laid my eyes upon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesweetscience Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 It! Way to long and way too weird. Half way through it and I didn't have any idea what was going on. So I quit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeddyRulz Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 I've stopped reading hundreds of books. Good books are too important to me to waste my time on crap. If you can't hold my interest for even three measly chapters, I'll move on to somebody who can... the library's full of stuff for me to get to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iluvgeddy05 Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 QUOTE (Snowdog @ Feb 2 2008, 09:42 AM) Dare I say it??? The Masked Rider. I couldn't finish it. I've read all of his other books, but I never could finish TMR. Let the flogging begin Come to think of it, I never finished this either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaine mac Roth Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 I must confess that there have been a few that I've started over the years and, for one reason or another, never managed to finish. Among the ones I can remember are: Anything by D H Lawrence (Lawrence was one of the authors I studied both for my 'A' level and degree and, to be honest, I absolutely despise his writing). The Last of the Mohicans - James Fennimore Cooper(just couldn't get into it) On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin The Prince - Machiavelli Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes Adam Bede - George Elliot Frankenstein - Mary Shelley The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas Robinson Crusoe - Daniel De Foe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softfilter Posted February 6, 2008 Author Share Posted February 6, 2008 Another one i didn't dig to far in was "A History Of Wales" by John Davies. Always interested in my Welsh heritage decided to get a rich in depth education of my kinfolk, 767 pages. Embrassed to say but the reason i quit this one was not being able to unravel and differentiate between persons and places! Honestly all those llynwilllyn of Illynwillyyyn(exaggerated for demonstration purpose).... but not by much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incubus Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 Daddy by DanielleSteel. It was the "cheese factor" that I mentioned in the thread "what are you reading". I also had more important things to do, like studying for final exams. First things first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incubus Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 I didn't finish Stephen King's Dark Tower series either. There's 7 books. I only read 5. He writes too damn much. The last book is over 1000 pages. Eeeek!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fridge Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 QUOTE (TheRocinanteKid @ Feb 2 2008, 09:44 PM) Countless times for school I've been asked to read Shakespeare plays and ended up on the internet finding out the storyline and writing my essay based on that and a few random quotes that I find by flicking through. Sorry, but I find that quite sad actually. Shakespeare was one of the greatest exponents of the English language in history along with other such luminaries as Chaucer, Byron, Wordsworth Hardy etc and for you to dismiss him like that is very disappointimg indeed. i thoroughly recommend that you take the time to really study a couple of his plays as they are richly rewarding. Also, I don't really want to be too critical of modern education, but there is no way that I could have got away with abridging accounts from the internet when I was at school (saying that, there WAS no internet when I was at school). The standard expected simply would have made it impossible to get away with this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
condemned2bfree Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 (edited) Ben eltons first book. Could not finish it, it's all over the place -too much going on. Edit : typo......damn chip butty fingers Edited February 8, 2008 by condemned2bfree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiscipleofLerxst Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 QUOTE (iluvgeddy05 @ Feb 4 2008, 01:49 PM)QUOTE (Snowdog @ Feb 2 2008, 09:42 AM) Dare I say it??? The Masked Rider. I couldn't finish it. I've read all of his other books, but I never could finish TMR. Let the flogging begin Come to think of it, I never finished this either. I found unbearable as well. I started it right after I bought it at the Tampa T4E show and put it down about a third of the way through...a few years later I picked it up and re-read it...it didn't get any better. I read Travelling Music too...but none of his others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turn Me On Dead Man Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 A lot of Goosebumps books in the past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 For me, it's "A Tale of Two Cities". It has one of the greatest opening lines in literary history, and he should have ended it there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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