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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
Oh yes, how could I forget Tess of the d'Urbervilles. One attempt at reading that was one too many. I could not even manage to sit through the entire film starring an incredibly hot Nastassia Kinski. I was there because the woman I was dating at the time insisted that we go see it. Even she lost patience with the Tess character perpetually doing everything she could to make herself miserable and we both left long before the closing credits.
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The very book I was going to mention. I had to do it as part of my English Literature "A" Level Exam (exam qualifications for entrance to UK universities), and I hated it so much I couldn't even finish it. As a result I has to miss out a whole exam question, a third of the marks...
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Originally Posted by Asawi
A recent no-finish: Tender is the night, the MR Book Club selection. That one did grab me at first because of great descriptive writing. But the further I got into it the more I hated the characters and I honestly couldn't care less what happened to them!
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I'm in the same position, though I may try to come back to it as I don't like giving up on books unless they are really badly written or plotted.