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I've got heaps that I've been postponing for years - sometimes with very odd reasons.
The entire Dark Tower series by Stephen King - I have commitment issues
The Baroque trilogy by Neil Stephenson - see above
The Stand by Stephen King - The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
Blackout, All Clear & Passage by Connie Willis - I want to, I need to, but they always get displaced
The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss - because yes, I was put off by the thought of reading over 100 pages of fairy sex (also see The Stand)
The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky - remedying this in 2013, I promise
Anything by Dan Simmons - Hyperion/Edymion (commitment issues), anything else (see The Stand)
The Slap and Dead Europe by Christos Tsiolkas - damn worthy, just don't get around to it
There's countless more. Most of it is because I have a strong commitment to indie authors at the moment and the reality is that they dominate my reading time.
However, next year I've scoped out a reading challenge called "Book Bonfire" where I'll be tackling those novels in my bookshelf that have remained untouched for too long.
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