Books you've deliberately stopped reading?

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(Apologies if I'm repeating a subject here, MN search function not behaving ATM!)

I have unintentionally stopped reading many books over the years, sometimes I've found them too hard to get into and/or just put them down somewhere and forgotten to pick them back up . Any of these, I'd like to think one day I'll start them again and finish them.

But I've only ONCE deliberately closed a book never to open it again. It was Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller. I don't think of myself as a prude, but it was just... yuck.

Oh I've remembered another - On The Road.
Drivel

Moomin

Very envious of those of you who could give up on Great Expectations and Wuthering Heights. I did GE for Intermediate Certificate (Irish equivalent of GCSE at the time) and WH for Leaving Cert - A level equivalent.

I have enjoyed some books mentioned on here though!

On the Road.
Do you mean The Road?

50 shades too. Bought it 2 years ago and got about a third through.
Lot of shite.
And I loves me books.

I tried.I really tried with The book Thief.

A friend insisted it was worth carrying on with so I persevered for chapters upon chapters ,complaining all the way. It was so depressing.

She went off on holiday so I ditched the darned thing. I was pleased to be able to read normal books again.

She can't mean "The Road" that's an amazing book.

Fifty shades - gave up after a couple of chapters. It is the worst written pile of rubbish ever and I read anything.

Cloud Atlas - I persevered but felt like I'd wasted my life. I enjoyed the movie though.

May we be Forgiven by AM homes- navel-gazing codswallop about an arse obsessed with Nixon.

Lord of the Rings- thought the writing was dreadful, only made it halfway through the first one.

I have to say that I love Wuthering Heights, but can imagine it's a bit like marmite- it's completely over the top.

Only made it 2/3s of the way through Elizabeth Jane Howard's autobiography. I LOVE her, but at some point it turned into a long list of vaguely famous people she'd shagged (first half was excellent though).

Did the previous poster mean On the road by Jack Kerouac?

Game of Thrones three times. I loved the prologue and the rest of it didn't live up to that. Also hated the writing style.

Fear and Loathing - got bored.

Agree about the James Patterson.
Anything by Patricia Cornwell over the last 10 years. She went right weirdy.

Tarka the [Fricken] Otter. Sooooo boring!

Also Cloud Atlas.

A PP mentioned giving up on 100 Years of Solitude, and coming back to it. Funnily, I did the same with Love in the Time of Cholera.

The Slap
Moon (?) by Alice Sebold

The Book Thief
Room

American psycho , vile book , I love a bit of gore but this was horrendous . It's hidden at the back of a book shelf now ( shudder)

Oh that one too Kickass

The writing style is shit, didn't get beyond page 20 either time I tried to read it.

Cloud Atlas - dull, dull, dull.

The Gargoyle - too gory. And odd. I don't need an in depth tutorial about debridement thanks. Eewww.

Time Travellers Wife - confusing. And shit.

Oh there are many. Latest was We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. Yawn.

I wished I had stopped at page 20 Alisvo
Oh I loved The Gargoyle one of my favourite books ! But will agree a bit strange.

I'm too lily livered for The Gargoyle Kickass.

Similar to others:
The Slap
There's Something about Kevin
Fifty shades
The one with Ukrainian Tractor in the title
Quite a few Jane Austin and other classics.
The Dubliners

I really don't like to give up on a book, but the one I did was Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks.
I got about a third of the way through, but hated the characters so much I just didn't care what happened to them, and gave up.

I really disliked Far From the Madding Crowd that I had to study at school for a similar reason, though I had to finish that one. Steered very clear of Thomas Hardy ever since, though!

the Slaaaaaap.

Have done it with a few books but Oh the joy in putting down that book and deciding that my life would be absolutely fine without getting beyond page 8 finishing it.

I read Crime and Punishment as a teenager, then tried to read it again around 32 when just off antidepressants and found that I just couldn't stand it.

ComeHeather please, please, try again to
read Wild Swans. It is a fantastic tribute to the women in a fantastic family that went through the toughest of times.

It really is worth it.

I can't finish The Satanic Verses or the Famished Road.

Oh bless you mission ! Once you get past the nasty skin bits it becomes a bit of a lump in throat , stingy eye kinda book promise!
Do me a favour and never ever ever ever pick up American psycho as you seem to be of a delicate disposition !