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Some DNF's that I remember off the top of my head:
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Plains of Passage - Jean Auel
Runner - Patrick Lee
The Dumas book - I just don't like the old style of language. Too stilted and boring. I was falling asleep between sentences. I like the story, and enjoyed the movie, but reading it as originally written by Dumas - not my cup of tea.
The McCarthy book - Written in short broken sentences, where a thought often spans multiple sentences. Too choppy for me to enjoy. I like a writing style where chapters flow into the next chapter, paragraphs flow into the next paragraph, and sentences flow into the next sentence. In The Road, it felt like I was trying to put a train of thought together after it had been run through the shredder.
The Auel book - I think I just grew tired of the story. I like the story. And it surprises me that I grew tired of it. I think it was one of the many caveman sex scenes, or one of the long diatribes on medicinal plants that was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. I can't remember what finally drove me off, but I think it was Ayla being enraptured watching wooly mammoths having sex.
The Lee book - I like Patrick Lee's writing style, his other books, and even the first 1/3 of Runner that I made it through. But then he introduced a new villain that disgusted me. I don't like reading about mentally ill folks with voices in their head telling them to go kill someone by hitting them with a hammer. I assumed that this new character was going to play a large part in the rest of the book, and I just don't enjoy reading about sickos. Just a few pages reading about him made me discard the book. What a shame ... it was a good book. I still may go back to this one some day, based on my like for Lee's other books.
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