Just couldn't finish it...

I have done that too. One recently was The Secret. I thought it was totally repetitious. Not only that but it was like reading a previously printed book called the power of positive thinking. There have been others too......I can't think of their titles off hand as they were very forgetable.

I had one like that recently. I got through the first couple of chapters and had to put it aside. Normally, I will force my way through a book even if I think its bad. But I just couldn't make myself do it with this one. The surprising thing for me, was that it was an Anita Shreve book. I've read some of her other books and really enjoyed them, but I just couldn't get into this one ("Strange Fits of Passion"). Maybe I'll pick it up again in a few weeks and see if I can force a couple more chapters, and hopefully it will improve.

I have never been able to get past a few pages of Wuthering Heights or Pride and Prejudice. I know it's the language in Wuthering Heights (difficult to understand) but I'm not sure what it is about Pride and Prejudice. I've watched movie versions and it's not the basic story. I just have some block when it comes to the book.

I've encountered a few of those kinds of books. I used to force myself to just keep going. Then I realized it wasn't worth being bored with reading to finish a book. The first one that I ever actually put down was a Toni Morisson book. I don't remember the title.

I never used to live a book un read no matter how painfully bad it was. But as of last year I decided that my time was to valuable to waist in such books and that there were too many other good books that I could be reading at that time so now if I dont like it I close the book and dont read it.

I've done that before. I usually try to finish the books I read, but some were really just too boring or too stupid. I can't remember the titles of the books, though... One of them involved submarines or some sort of underwater exploration, I left off reading that because it was boring. And another one was about demons and archons and God, I couldn't finish that one because it was boring and had stupid dialogue. I didn't go back to trying to read them. I just bought/borrowed other books instead.

Yeah, some books are like that. I would often not finish or skim read. You can always tell a good book. I always finish them quickly because I want to keep picking it up all the time. It's great when one encounters such a book.

I have had the same experience. I have gone back to the books I have abandoned and found much to my surprise that I enjoy them. I don't know whether I just wasn't in the mood or whether it was just a case of a different place or a different time. I found myself wondering why I didn't enjoy the book's first time around and have never really been able to answer that.

Before I graduated from my college I often enjoyed reading. But now I almost dont read any book every year.

I could not get started on Stephen King's Insomnia - tried a few times, and I like most of his books. Classics - I couldn't even begin A Clockwork Orange. I could only get half way through The Catcher in the Rye and a third of the way through 1984.

I have done that to a few books recently. I thought the summary/synopsis sounded like the book would be great and would really interest me. Then I started and with all of them I couldn't get past the first chapter. The book seemed nothing like the back cover made it out to be and it did not interest me in the least bit. Maybe I will give them another try.

I try very hard to read every book but there have been one or two occasions that I just couldn't do it. I can't remember the titles off the top of my head but I felt that I couldn't stand another minute of them!! :)

Hey there I have read a few books that where so boring so could not finish a.