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What books could you not finish?

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almondfinger · 15/08/2018 21:17

I am having the most miserable of summer reads.

Do not say we have nothing - FFS, I persevered and it got a bit better and then reverted to tedious. Have way in I had to put it down.

Then I picked up A brief history of 7 killings - Every time I pick it up I fall asleep. The patois is difficult but when it gets to the CIA agents told in English I cant read that either. So far their have been so many killings I have lost count and it's far from brief.

I had to go out yesterday and buy some new books to look forward to. Tell me some of the books you couldn't be arsed with so I can avoid.

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Ohyesiam · 15/08/2018 21:20

Autograph man. I tried twice, it was twaddle.

missyB1 · 15/08/2018 21:20

I’m struggling with one at the moment which got rave reviews on Amazon. “The Hope Family Calendar” by Mike Gayle, I read a different one of his which was great, but this one is so predictable and amateur.

SavageBeauty73 · 15/08/2018 21:19

Wolf Hall. Hated it.

Cauliflowersqueeze · 15/08/2018 21:19

I think it was because 845 characters were introduced in the first chapter. And about 8 successive paragraphs wrote in huge length what anyone else could say in a sentence.

theaveragewife · 15/08/2018 21:18

The Lovely Bones, page 1 was enough.

Cauliflowersqueeze · 15/08/2018 21:17

Bleak House.