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Originally Posted by June
I have the principle that once I've started a book I don't quit - I keep reading out of some misguided idea that there *must* be some point/reason/idea in it eventually... That being said, there are a few books that I so far have been *unable* to finish (they loom like threatening clouds in the bottom of the bookshelf)....
So my list of worst books includes:
- Satanic Verses by Rushdie (I keep going back and starting over, thinking I must be missing something, since it raised such a lively debate worldwide, but just can't get past the dark cloud)
- most of John Grishams books (read a couple and you've read them all....)
- Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
- Trading up by Candace Bushnell
- Torey Hayden (they give me the feeling that the ultimate motive for writing the books after the first is, in addition to making money, to tell the world how good she is...)
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Unfortunately, I am following the same rule
From the list I submitted, the following were finished
:
American Gods by
Neil Gaiman
The Earthsea by
Ursula Le Guine
The Redemption of Althalus by
David Eddings and Leigh Eddings
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by
Milan Kundera
The Wind-up Bird Chronicles by
Haruki Murakami
+
Lord of Light by
Roger Zelazny
+
The Secret History of Moscow by
Ekaterina Sedia
However I have learned the lesson and ...
Thomas Covenant Series by
Stephen Donaldson[1/3 into the first volume, then scanned the rest of the book]
The Book of the New Sun by
Gene Wolfe [1.5 out of 5 books]
The Soddit by
Adam Roberts [probably no more than 20 pages]
Since then two more books have been added to the list that I successfully managed to abandon:
The Name of the Rose by
Umberto Eco
and
Catch-22 by
Joseph Heller
I do plan to read
Satanic Verses by
Rushdie but something is telling me, that although the theme is exciting the book is going to be boring and I will drop it.