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I forced myself through:
1. Earthsea 5 books by Ursula Le Guin - horribly borring
2. Although I liked some of books in Crown of Star series by Kate Elliott, the last two books were so lame that I believe it was a big waste of time on my part to read the series, waaaaaaaay too much of religious rant and horrible ending
3. The Book of the New Sun 1 - The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe.
I even read half of the The Claw of the Conciliator before I gave up
4. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
5. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville (I have an excuse here. I loved the book, until I reached the horrible ending.....)
6. The Redemption of Althalus by D&L Eddings, parody on fantasy
7. Any Russian classics I had to read in school, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Chekhov, Sholokhov. Absolutely hated them. Stupid books.
8. The Secret History of Moscow by Ekaterina Sedia
9. Lord of Light by R. Zelazny
10. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
11. The Wind-up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami
12. The first 2 out of 4 Hyperion books by Dan Simmons. I liked the last two though.
Hey, I am learning from my mistakes. I don't force myself anymore.
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller and The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco are the latest examples. No more than 1/3 of each, then off they went to Recyle bin.
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