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Originally Posted by gmw
The first book I remember putting down unfinished was "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson. It's so long ago that I couldn't tell you exactly what it was that didn't work for me. I'm one of those that generally try to finish whatever I start - I even managed the Bible, though I failed with the Koran. I'm am getting less inclined to finish now, but books that I put down are few are far between. It's rarely anything specific. The most common symptom is finding myself having to go back re-read previous pages or paragraphs, not because I didn't understand them the first time, but because my mind got so bored that it wandered off to think about other things that it has already forgotten what came before.
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You might have just not been ready for the book at the time. I understand the same thing happened to Steve Allen when he was faced with reading Moby Dick as a kid for school. Later in life he went back to it and enjoyed it, but for him it was too early when he was supposed to be reading it.