02-28-2009, 09:00 AM | #1 |
Wizard
Posts: 3,490
Karma: 5239563
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Denmark
Device: Kindle 3|iPad air|iPhone 4S
|
What book(s) did you finish even though you didn't like it?
Reading this thread, I was reminded of a book I read all the way through, even though I quickly knew I hated it. I finished beacuse I had to know if it could get worse progressively. It could. It was "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown.
|
02-28-2009, 09:30 AM | #2 |
Wizard
Posts: 2,366
Karma: 12000
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Texas, USA
Device: Kindle; Sony PRS 505; Blackberry 8700C
|
For me it was Lord Foul's Bane by Steven R Donaldson. I hated the main character and got really annoyed by his whinging throughout the book. But, I kept thinking, "Surely it will get better. Too many people said this was a good book." But it didn't get better and when I read the last page, I felt like my time had been stolen from me.
Last edited by Elsi; 02-28-2009 at 08:19 PM. |
Advert | |
|
02-28-2009, 10:25 AM | #3 |
Grand Sorcerer
Posts: 5,870
Karma: 27376
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Pennsylvania
Device: PRS-505
|
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. I forced myself to finish it and it didn't get better in the end for me.
|
02-28-2009, 01:29 PM | #4 |
Junior Member
Posts: 8
Karma: 190
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
Device: sony prs-700
|
I can't do it. If a book is that bad, it's a waste of my time. I'd rather just put it away and start on something better.
I have read some books that were great....until you get to a crappy ending. That is the worst! It's almost like the author was running up against a deadline and decided to wrap everything up in any way possible. |
02-28-2009, 02:13 PM | #5 |
Wizard
Posts: 3,490
Karma: 5239563
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Denmark
Device: Kindle 3|iPad air|iPhone 4S
|
Usually; i do that, too, but in this case I wanted to finish the book just to see if kept being like it was. Actually, a crappy ending is amuch greater let down. I just read a book where ending was huge cop-out and I'd just before reading it 'prayed' that it wouldn't be what it was.
|
Advert | |
|
02-28-2009, 02:46 PM | #6 |
Grand Sorcerer
Posts: 16,731
Karma: 12185114
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Florida
Device: iPhone 6 plus, Sony T1, iPad 3
|
For me that would be 'The Dreaming Void'. The author managed to jam a 600 page novel into 900 pages.
|
02-28-2009, 03:11 PM | #7 |
Grand Sorcerer
Posts: 11,342
Karma: 35112572
Join Date: Jan 2008
Device: Pocketbook
|
When Late The Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm. I couldn't put the book down because of the quality of writing, and I kept slamming it against the wall because the story was so repugnant to me.
|
02-28-2009, 06:54 PM | #8 |
WWHALD
Posts: 7,879
Karma: 337114
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Mitcham, Surrey, UK
Device: iPad. Selling my silver 505 here
|
Three spring to mind:
Da Vinci Code TimeTraders Lord of the Rings |
02-28-2009, 07:47 PM | #9 |
Guru
Posts: 663
Karma: 84658
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Minnesota, USA
Device: PB360+, Sony950, VR Stream, iPod Touch, iPad
|
Down all the Days by Christy Brown
No plot, just an adolescent boy having wet dreams/hallucinations and obsessing over breasts. |
02-28-2009, 08:23 PM | #10 |
Evangelist
Posts: 478
Karma: 451808
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: California, USA
Device: my two eyes, KLiiK, Sony PRS-700
|
An interesting question. I have to think: honestly how many people here actually do like reading the "classics" or rather more accurately the copyright free texts? It seems to me that the primary reason people talk about digital readers and "classics" is because those are free books. If there were not free, probably more than 50% of digital reader users would not bother with them.
As a scholar in the social sciences myself, I admit to not being attracted to the so-called classics literature and much prefer to read contemporary texts. Last edited by thibaulthalpern; 02-28-2009 at 11:54 PM. |
02-28-2009, 08:31 PM | #11 |
Resident Curmudgeon
Posts: 75,834
Karma: 134321338
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts
Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3
|
The Silmarillian by J.R.R. Tolkien released after his death by his son. It was really heavy and dull. I plodded through it only because my Mom bought it for me. I tried his latest posthumous book released by his son (borrowed from the library) and gave up pretty quick.
|
02-28-2009, 08:39 PM | #12 | |
WWHALD
Posts: 7,879
Karma: 337114
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Mitcham, Surrey, UK
Device: iPad. Selling my silver 505 here
|
Quote:
|
|
02-28-2009, 08:40 PM | #13 | |
Grand Sorcerer
Posts: 5,870
Karma: 27376
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Pennsylvania
Device: PRS-505
|
Quote:
|
|
02-28-2009, 08:42 PM | #14 |
Wizard
Posts: 2,624
Karma: 1008294
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Iowa, USA
Device: Nook Simple Touch
|
MY Life by Bill Clinton
|
02-28-2009, 09:31 PM | #15 |
Holy S**T!!!
Posts: 5,213
Karma: 108401
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: San Diego, California!!
Device: Kindle and iPad
|
Dahlgren. Even though I HATED IT.
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Do you finish every book you start? | banjobama | General Discussions | 77 | 09-24-2010 03:30 PM |
Do you finish reading every book you start reading? | JSWolf | General Discussions | 56 | 08-12-2010 05:52 PM |
To Finish or Not to Finish? | jenieliser | Reading Recommendations | 56 | 11-03-2009 06:56 PM |
What book have you tried to read many times but could not finish? | Nate0072 | Lounge | 62 | 03-10-2009 05:20 PM |
What do you do after you finish reading a book? | TheEternalVortex | Lounge | 12 | 04-25-2008 02:12 PM |