Ser Bruce the Hound KG Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 2. Fellowship of the Ring I thought I was the only one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stubby Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 The Fifth Sorceress by Robert Newcomb. An abomination. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laoise Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad - had to read it for English Lit. never got past the first chapter. Swords of Shannara by Terry Brookes - I've started this book about 5 times in my life and never managed to get past the halfway point. Intervention by Julian May on Ser Stubby's recommendation - tried a couple of times, but nothing doing. I've read WoT up to book 9 and just can't bring myself to read the next books. I have a fairly high tolerance for crappy books (I confess that I have not only read the Fifth Sorceress from start to finish but the follow up as well - I didn't enjoy either one) I tend to feel obliged to push on and finish the damn thing once I've started. _________________________ laoise / Ser Stubby's Strumpet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duchess of malfi Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 I have a fairly high tolerance for crappy books (I confess that I have not only read the Fifth Sorceress from start to finish but the follow up as well - I didn't enjoy either one) I tend to feel obliged to push on and finish the damn thing once I've started. I have the same curse. There are few books I have not finished once I have started them. And it takes a long time for me to give up on a series, too. I finally gave up on Goodkind after Pillars of Creation and Laurell K. Hamilton after Danse Macabre. There are a couple of mystery series I have stopped reading as well. I have tried to be kinder to myself - I stopped reading that one series with Eragon, and never went on to the next book. And I never even tried to read Fifth Sorceress after hearing how bad it was... I'm not sure if it is simple stubborness or a masochistic streak that kept me reading some of these series so long... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rado907 Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 I suffer the same ailment. I find it very difficult to throw down a book that annoys me. The signle exception that I remember is S. King's "It", which disgusted me so much in so few pages that I dumped it and later gave it away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sio Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan. I got perhaps seven pages in before quitting. Ah, one of the Thomas Covenant books, I can't remember which one, put down after about twenty pages. Battleaxe by Sara Douglass. However, I was about ten when I started it, and a friend has previously recommended to me and praised it most highly, so I'll pick it up again sometime and give it another chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
add-on Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy and The House of the Dead by Dostoevsky. I've liked other books by both authors, but couldn't handle these two for whatever reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slyfinger Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 Oh yeah. I don't know if this counts but... um, the Bible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torturedbysprouts Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 'Jude the Obscure' - Thomas Hardy for me as well. Also - 'The Pickwick Papers' - Charles Dickens (I love Dickens, but this early work was just too episodic and lacking in structure), and 'Anna Karenina' - Tolstoy. Finally, I'm afraid to say - many years ago after ploughing through Fellowship and Two Towers, I stuttered to a halt midway through 'Return of the King'. Even though, perversely, I was enjoying that stage of the story far more than 'Fellowship' - I was just tired of fantasy. Didn't read another fantasy novel for about 15 years, till Mr Martin started writing a certain series........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhaegon Targaryen Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 "Gardens of the Moon", by Erikson. Absolute rubbish The goodkind series halfway through "Faith of the Fallen". Disgusting rubbish. The first Shannara book the name of which escapes me. Risible, excreble derivative rubbish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arataniello Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. It just plods on and on, and there are far too many footnotes. Aratan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteQueen Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 So many to mention: WoT after the sixth book, The Dark Tower after the third book, The Time Traveller's Wife, The Wings of the Dove, most bestsellers I buy in airports for a flight -- I just can't bear a thought of that rubbish after I get off the plane, etc, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheHoundRules Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 Eye of the World Mist of Avalon Blood Meridian The Prestige Assasin's Apprentice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinDonner Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 I used to feel compelled to struggle through books I hated. No longer. Recently I've given up on: Getting Rid of Mister Kitchen - Charles Higson Left Behind - Tim Lahaye & some other fella Witches' Brew - Terry Brooks (don't think I made it past the first page of this) City of Saints and Madmen - Jeff Vandermeer (though I may give this one another shot) On the other hand, I struggled through the first few books of Katherine Kerr's Deverry series because a friend had lent them to me and I was being polite, and eventually got quite hooked on the series and now really enjoy it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhelanArcetus Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 There are only two books I picked up to read for myself, started, and failed to finish at all. One is Speaker for the Dead, by Orson Scott Card. I actually didn't make it past the introduction. The other was... some New Jedi Order book in the Star Wars series, following after the pair by Salvatore and Stackpole, respectively. I forgot the name, but I just didn't care. It was the last time I bought a Star Wars book. Sadly, I finished through all the SoT paperbacks that were out when I read... even though after Pillars, I wasn't keen on reading Naked Empire, I made myself finish it. And decided never again. Edit: While I didn't pick it out, my father once tried to force me to read Catch-22, and I couldn't. However, it bears noting that I had no desire to read it, but had a book shoved down my throat, so I can't say if I'd actually drop the book if I chose to read it myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Warpechowski Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 Wizard First Rule by Goodkind. Time is too precious for me to read it just so I can laugh about it latter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandello Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 The Fellowship of the Ring in English - pooor translators. This was the most boring book that I've read in English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vagrancy Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 The One Kingdom, by Sean Russell. I just found it dull and uninspiring. Yup, me too. Same goes for First Rider's Call by Kristen Britain. Gardens of the Moon, Steven Erikson: I certainly appreciated how dense his world was, but his characters did nothing for me, and I found his writing style rather impenetrable. Also kept falling asleep while I was reading it. Still, I'll probably try it again at some point. Godslayer, Mickey Zucker Reichert: I thought it started promisingly, but then I found I couldn't get past the third chapter; something about her Earth characters just rubbed me the wrong way. Kingdom of the Grail, Judith Tarr: First Tarr book I've tried, and while I think she has a nice writing style, this story did nothing for me, and the characters annoyed the hell out of me, especially the sorceress woman or whoever she is. Made it about a quarter way through before packing it in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCoj Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 Battleaxe by Sara Douglass. However, I was about ten when I started it, and a friend has previously recommended to me and praised it most highly, so I'll pick it up again sometime and give it another chance. I like this series. The first three. Don't go on though - the last three are absolutely disgusting. @Rhaegon Targaryen: It's rubbish because its old...I think they were published in the 1970s. How can you expect a series written for the fan base at that time to fit in with the fan base of this time? Would have even ASoIaF made it in that time? Don't judge a book by it's cover....judge it by the people it was written for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Barry Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad - had to read it for English Lit. never got past the first chapter.________________________ laoise / Ser Stubby's Strumpet You lose this game as that book is about 17 pages long. Cop out. So many to mention: ...The Time Traveller's Wife, *Diez and iz ded.* I have never heard a bad word about that book until now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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