Books you've deliberately stopped reading?

Titus Groan
Labyrinth - Kate Mosse. Fucking awful.
Shikasta - Doris Lessing. Got quite far in, too.
Disgrace - JM Coetzee
Lord of the Rings
Fear and Loathing in LAs Vegas (was heavily pregnant and just wished they'd all grow the fuck up.)

I'm usually quite disciplined and will plough through utter shite in the hope that it may improve, but just couldn't do it with that lot. Can't think of many others.

Maybe we should also do 'books we should have ditched early on'. But that may be too long.

I liked Wolf Hall but it really does bring home that one in three men of that time were called Thomas.

Oh forgot about Cloud Atlas deliberately now that was an utter load of shit.

I'm so pleased that my two are both here. Cloud Atlas and Wuthering Heights.

50 shades, - got to page 12 ('ll never get that time back)
time travellers wife - tedious.
jed someone - the interprettion of Murder. I finished the book - I did, so you don't need to.

Brighton Rock - too depressing.

Life if Pi. The first part droned on and on about animal behaviour zzzzzzz.

Also Wolf Hall. I couldn't get on with the present tense.

A Discovery of Witches. I so wanted it to be good but it was a big pile of poo.

sweetnessandlite I had actually read at least one other than wasn't bad as rubbish books go, but this one, can't remember the title was about a rich girl who is incredibly intelligent and beautiful, goes to the right school and ends up being president of the US. Honestly couldn't see where the dilemna was.

Ulysses. Life seemed too short to make sense of it.

Fifty Shades of Grey
The Da Vinci Code

Utter banality, both of them. Few books made me wish I'd never learned to read, but these two? Sheesh. One was a 'Secret Santa' present, the other loaned to me by MIL. Glad I didn't spend good money on either of them.

I think Jeffry Archer novels are amazing compared to some of the drivel that's written at the moment.

Lots but recently

The Slap. All those characters in the first few chapters. And who cares about any of them???

A Fine Balance. Lots of people love it but I was soooo depressed by page 200 (out of 600), kept going and then read the review that described it as lively and evocative but bleak and depressing in the last 200 pages - ie it was about to get much much worse!

Then there was 100 years of solitude - now one of my favourite books, but first time I only got through about 30 years of solitude . Very, very glad that I went back though.

(Book I wished I had stopped reading - The Goldfinch. Enjoyed the first couple of chapters. Got through the middle and enjoyed the last chapter, but really can't see why the reviewers were getting soooo excited about it. A modern classic putting Pratt alongside Steinbeck . . .really ???)

Catch 22. Utterly hated it.

Uuf, a Jeffrey Archer novel. I can read any old rubbish, but this was beyond the pale.

Meant to say - The author should get your to like

I hated Room.

The character of the child was really unlikeable. Which is wrong. The reader should get you to like the child, surely?

I also thought that book was completely unrealistic.
I mean, when the child escaped, he had NEVER seen the outdoors before, and yet,
the author had him being completely un-amazed by it all.
(that wouldn't happen in reality)

Heartstrumpsdimonds I so agree.

Wuthering Heights. I have tried and tried and fucking tried with this book and cannot do it. I have finally admitted defeat and in fact it is very liberating. Hello my name is Hearts and I am never going to read Wuthering Heights

Straw - you've just put me off my dinner :o I tried listening to his The History Boys recently - gave up after about 10 mins. Was all fuck this, wank that. Switched it off - could not care less if I tried. Odd, because I've read some of his other stuff and liked it.

The Historian - and I so wanted to love it. Ditto
Rivers of London - don't understand why it's so popular
London Fields - in gave me so big a rage I will never try and read another Amis novel, because he gives me the rage.

But then I loved some of the books mentioned on this thread.....

A Brief History of Time.
Titus Groan.
Lord of the Rings.
Eats, Shoots and Leaves.
War and Peace.
Mein Kampf.
Das Kapital.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Justine.
Biography of Christopher Isherwood.
Tony Blair's autobiography.
Henry IV Part 2
The instruction manual for the DVD recorder.

Alan Bennett's autobiography. What makes him think anyone wants to know about his wanking? Put me right off him.

Gave it to my mum

The Fault in Our Stars.

People go on and on about how it's beautiful... I thought the way he talked about children with cancer was fucking disgusting.

Life of Pi. Just couldn't do it.

Loved the film though. Pretty much the only time it's ever worked that way round for me.