Great Expectations by Dickens
The Old Curiosity Shop
The Three Musketeers
The Fountainhead
Frankenstein by Koontz
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Great Expectations by Dickens
The Old Curiosity Shop
The Three Musketeers
The Fountainhead
Frankenstein by Koontz
got a new book called Onyx and crake - i gave up
Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver. I tried, I really tried and just couldn't get into it. I'm going to give it another try after I finish Nick Harkaway's The Gone Away World, and the other two books I have lined up after his.
A true firewasp ninja would never wear such a ridiculous sweater.
There's logic in nonsense.
Give me all the bacon and eggs you have.
Dune I can't get into, and have tried two or three times as a big SF fan; any book where you have to consult indexes and footnotes constantly is something I can't read for pleasure. Though LOTR is similarly framed and a slave to indexes in its own right, the story is always perfectly clear outside the history and terms, and the Tolkien stuff is interesting, whereas I found Herbert's approach grim and academic. Tolkien is heavy in any case and won't be for everyone. Thankfully the movies do a wonderful job conveying the feel and basic story for those who can't be bothered to read it.
Hmmmm. I've never minded when I was reading and had to refer to maps and things. I always kind of liked that additional input to a good story.
The Man In Black Fled Across The Desert...
...And The Gunslinger Followed.
“I’m always on the Batman rule, sir.” - Kate Kane / Detective Comics 857
"It is the story, not he who tells it." Except to us collectors who have to put limits somewhere. - jhanic
Remember, Remember, The Fifth of November, The Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot.
I never had to do that with Dune. Was it Frank Herbert's version you were reading?Originally Posted by Kronz
One book I couldn't get into that people tell me is great was Red Mars. I dunno...I might try again.
Madame Bovary, Flaubert.
The golem, Gustav Meyrink.
Ulises, James Joyce.
Even that I really enjoyed the Golem, I don't know why I've started it twice and I've never finished it.
...but did? Wizards and Glass. Wow, the journey that followed...
Wish List:
Any of the following flatsigned or inscribed-
It, Shining, Salem’s Lot, Mr. Mercedes, The Stand
Brother ARC, Seed ARC
Game of Thrones. However, I am currently doing my level best to read it!!!!
28 in 23 (?)!!!!
63 in '23!!!!!!!!!!
My Collection: https://www.thedarktower.org/palaver...ion-Merlin1958
The Houston Astros cheated Major League Baseball from 2017-18!!!! Is that how we teach our kids to play the game now?????
Garrel: Funny, I don't really know how I ended that book. I meant, I just read it without feel the time... o.o
I wish you would give it another try. The ending is very good; actually, the whole book is.
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I do like the book in fact. Maybe I haven't had the patience yet.I wish you would give it another try. The ending is very good; actually, the whole book is.
John Scalzi - Zoe's Tale. I love that Old Man's War series but that book was painful.
I'm currently struggling with Harlan Ellison's Deathbird Stories. Some are really good and some I don't know what to make of. I'm 1/2 done so I'll probably finish but I'm not enjoying it.
It's been 20 years since I read Deathbird Stories. Unless I'm thinking of a different Ellison collection, I believe in the introduction he tells the reader that this is not a fun or light book and NOT to sit down and try to read all the stories one after another. He says something like "I'm very serious about this." It's just too much to read them all at once.
Margaret Attwood is like that. I'm a big fan, but even I found Oryx and Crake hard going. It's good if you stick with it though.got a new book called Onyx and crake - i gave up
My situation exactly.
Trying to read Atlas Shrugged was pure folly. And The Shadow Rising from The Wheel of Time. i don't know why not for that one.
Big town's got its losers, small town's got its vices...
That's sounds like the same introduction from the edition I have. It's not that it's too heavy for me, it's too 'bullshitty' for me. Some of the stories have the same or similar plots and endings and some I feel just go nowhere. I finished 80% and I'm done with it. No point forcing it, the book has brought me no enjoyment and I got nothing out of it. Nothing, darkness, duality, god, conflict.It's been 20 years since I read Deathbird Stories. Unless I'm thinking of a different Ellison collection, I believe in the introduction he tells the reader that this is not a fun or light book and NOT to sit down and try to read all the stories one after another. He says something like "I'm very serious about this." It's just too much to read them all at once.
Don Quixote..made me read it in school, but really is a headache i dont care if is the most important one in spanish language...
Also this one About java or jakart, .always start reading it with a good mood and after some pages realize i already read that part.
oops... bears love Don Quixote
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
one book i still have yet to finish is 'Les Miserable" by "Victor Hugo" cause on HOW it was written, it's a VERY difficult read & that's why i had a hard time finishining it. i think i read part 1 & than i gave up on it.
another book that i just can't get into. & i gave the book to read to a friend's mom. well he's more so like a brother. & it was a "Clive Barker" novel "Imajica" i think is the name of it? she described the book as taking forever in getting into. & if you start halfway into it & go backwards i think she said is how to read it? or something along the lines of that.
I loved it to pieces but I guess the Hungarian translation might be better because it wasn't a hard read. It was a bit strange for about 20 pages but then I got used to the language and the style.
Roland would have understood.
Oh man, I loved ORYX AND CRAKE!Margaret Attwood is like that. I'm a big fan, but even I found Oryx and Crake hard going. It's good if you stick with it though.got a new book called Onyx and crake - i gave up
I recently started a book and, despite my strong need for closure forcing me to keep reading, I finally gave up about half way through. It was BACK WHEN WE WERE GROWN-UPS by Anne Tyler. What a snoozer.
"...that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little." ~ Ray Bradbury
The only book I've ever stopped reading halfway through is The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. Good lord was that book boring.
I am Daenerys Stormborn and I will take what is mine. With fire and blood.
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