Books You Couldn't Finish

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For whatever reason, good, bad or indifferent, you couldn't finish it. Add your abandoned reads. Thumbs down the ones that should be given a second chance.
1
The Lightning Thief
de Rick Riordan
31,580 membres
1,242 ressenyes
4.1
2 Members
merrystar, 2wonderY
Explicacions
merrystar: I'm possibly too old, but I found the beginning of this unreadable.
2
La Foguera de les vanitats
de Tom Wolfe
8,935 membres
132 ressenyes
3.8
2 Members
merrystar, fuzzi
Explicacions
fuzzi: Despised the characters, why read about people with no redeeming qualities?
3
The Witches: Salem, 1692
de Stacy Schiff
2,628 membres
68 ressenyes
½ 3.5
2 Members
Bookmarque, ManWithAnAgenda
Explicacions
Bookmarque: HIGHLY speculative. Repetitive. Repetitive. Repetitive.
4
The Help
de Kathryn Stockett
30,487 membres
1,488 ressenyes
½ 4.4
Member
ahef1963
5
En el camino
de Jack Kerouac
27,928 membres
385 ressenyes
½ 3.6
Member
ahef1963
6
Outlander
de Diana Gabaldon
23,733 membres
984 ressenyes
4.2
Member
Minthe
7
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
de Ransom Riggs
19,238 membres
1,134 ressenyes
½ 3.7
2 Members
barbharper, ahef1963,
8
11/22/63
de Stephen King
13,544 membres
761 ressenyes
4.2
Member
Minthe
9
Under the Dome
de Stephen King
11,714 membres
452 ressenyes
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
10
Dissabte
de Ian McEwan
10,332 membres
226 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
11
The Swiss Family Robinson
de Johann David Wyss
8,745 membres
90 ressenyes
½ 3.5
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
12
Història de la guerra del Peloponès
de Thucydides
7,863 membres
59 ressenyes
4
Member
merrystar
Explicacions
merrystar: the only assigned book I have ever given up on.
13
A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
de Karen Armstrong
7,831 membres
91 ressenyes
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
14
Los jardines de la luna
de Steven Erikson
6,871 membres
192 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
15
Un Petit inconvenient
de Mark Haddon
5,756 membres
184 ressenyes
½ 3.5
Member
Bookmarque
16
Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
de John Eldredge
5,715 membres
48 ressenyes
½ 3.6
Member
cej1027
17
Out of Africa
de Isak Dinesen
5,219 membres
98 ressenyes
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
18
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
de A. J. Jacobs
4,667 membres
192 ressenyes
3.8
Member
cej1027
19
The Monk
de Matthew Lewis
4,374 membres
92 ressenyes
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
20
Salem Falls
de Jodi Picoult
4,373 membres
72 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
21
There There
de Tommy Orange
4,260 membres
192 ressenyes
4
Member
Bookmarque
22
L'autèntica història dels Kelly
de Peter Carey
4,231 membres
79 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Member
Minthe
23
Oscar and Lucinda
de Peter Carey
4,122 membres
68 ressenyes
3.8
Member
Minthe
24
Dhalgren
de Samuel R. Delany
3,727 membres
74 ressenyes
3.8
Member
Cecrow
Explicacions
Cecrow: Couldn't find the story or the point.
25
Boneshaker
de Cherie Priest
3,701 membres
217 ressenyes
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
26
Mort al seminari
de P. D. James
3,670 membres
55 ressenyes
3.8
Member
katie4098
27
Ghost World = Món fantasmal
de Daniel Clowes
3,608 membres
78 ressenyes
3.8
Member
cej1027
28
El mar, el mar
de Iris Murdoch
3,575 membres
94 ressenyes
3.9
Member
Bookmarque
Explicacions
29
Look Homeward, Angel
de Thomas Wolfe
3,548 membres
50 ressenyes
4
Member
Crypto-Willobie
30
Behind Closed Doors
de B.A. Paris
3,430 membres
257 ressenyes
3.8
Member
Bookmarque
31
I Will Fear No Evil
de Robert A. Heinlein
3,414 membres
40 ressenyes
½ 3.4
Member
aulsmith
32
Moon Over Soho
de Ben Aaronovitch
3,231 membres
175 ressenyes
3.9
Member
Minthe
33
Life
de Keith Richards
3,198 membres
138 ressenyes
3.9
Member
Diane-bpcb
34
Sleeping Beauties
de Stephen King
3,088 membres
98 ressenyes
½ 3.6
Member
Bookmarque
Explicacions
Bookmarque: Repetitive. Boring.
35
L'Home dels autògrafs
de Zadie Smith
3,024 membres
41 ressenyes
3.1
Member
Bookmarque
Explicacions
Bookmarque: Scenes too long and choked with detail. Quirky for quirky's sake. Couldn't connect w/main character enough to wade through it all.
36
Centennial
de James A. Michener
3,003 membres
43 ressenyes
4.1
Member
merrystar
Explicacions
merrystar: Enjoyed the first half, but then it bogged down.
37
Accordion Crimes
de Annie Proulx
2,860 membres
47 ressenyes
½ 3.4
Member
Diane-bpcb
38
Never Cry Wolf
de Farley Mowat
2,704 membres
63 ressenyes
4.1
Member
Bookmarque
Explicacions
Bookmarque: Self-aggrandizing asshat. Bad science. Questionable reporting.
39
Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
de L. Ron Hubbard
2,690 membres
47 ressenyes
½ 3.3
2 Members
dtw42, ManWithAnAgenda,
40
La Muntanya de l'ànima
de Gao Xingjian
2,509 membres
38 ressenyes
½ 3.5
Member
starbox
41
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
de Charles Seife
2,457 membres
50 ressenyes
3.8
Member
skid0612
42
Absurdistan
de Gary Shteyngart
2,422 membres
79 ressenyes
½ 3.3
Member
Jullou
Explicacions
Jullou: I love satire and absurdism, rarely don't finish books. But I just couldn't get through this one.
43
Winter's Bone
de Daniel Woodrell
2,379 membres
129 ressenyes
4
Member
Bookmarque
Explicacions
Bookmarque: I've liked his other books but this one too brutal, nasty and gross
44
Pygmy
de Chuck Palahniuk
2,344 membres
74 ressenyes
2.9
Member
SimoneA
45
House
de Frank Peretti
2,287 membres
56 ressenyes
½ 3.4
Member
Bookmarque
Explicacions
Bookmarque: Too stupid. Too manipulative. Dumb characters. Like every cheap horror movie ever.
46
Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses
de Bruce Feiler
2,166 membres
25 ressenyes
3.9
Member
Diane-bpcb
47
Blonde
de Joyce Carol Oates
2,144 membres
62 ressenyes
4
Member
dara85
48
Call It Sleep
de Henry Roth
2,102 membres
40 ressenyes
3.9
Member
Diane-bpcb
49
La clau de vidre
de Dashiell Hammett
2,059 membres
44 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
Explicacions
Bookmarque: boring. convoluted. stop it with the two name boy already. Death to the two name boy!
50
The Island
de Victoria Hislop
2,021 membres
84 ressenyes
3.8
Member
eclecticdodo
51
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
de H. W. Brands
1,911 membres
11 ressenyes
4.1
Member
Diane-bpcb
52
for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf
de Ntozake Shange
1,788 membres
23 ressenyes
4
Member
cej1027
53
Envy
de Sandra Brown
1,778 membres
28 ressenyes
4
Member
Bookmarque
Explicacions
Bookmarque: outdated, 80s vibe to Maris's victimhood, predictable and not well written
54
Jack Maggs
de Peter Carey
1,751 membres
33 ressenyes
½ 3.6
Member
Minthe
55
Hidden Empire
de Kevin J. Anderson
1,679 membres
35 ressenyes
½ 3.5
Member
gilroy
Explicacions
gilroy: How can one sustain a story when you change points of view every two pages? Just horrible writing
56
Beauty
de Sheri S. Tepper
1,611 membres
31 ressenyes
3.8
Member
merrystar
Explicacions
merrystar: I generally love re-told fairy tales, but I couldn't make it through this one.
57
The Sandcastle Girls
de Chris Bohjalian
1,466 membres
149 ressenyes
3.9
Member
Bookmarque
Explicacions
Bookmarque: Just couldn't stand the brutality. Why do men do this?
58
Down River
de John Hart
1,440 membres
63 ressenyes
3.8
Member
Bookmarque
Explicacions
Bookmarque: Adam is just too dumb for me to stick with this book.
59
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
de Samuel R. Delany
1,372 membres
22 ressenyes
3.9
Member
aulsmith
60
Lethal
de Sandra Brown
1,246 membres
38 ressenyes
3.9
Member
Bookmarque
Explicacions
Bookmarque: Can't write her way out of a wet paper bag. Why do I keep trying?
61
Lord of the Isles
de David Drake
1,218 membres
15 ressenyes
3.2
Member
gilroy
Explicacions
gilroy: This came out when the Extended Epic like Wheel of Time was popular. Wheel of Time was bad, this was worse.
62
Home Safe
de Elizabeth Berg
1,208 membres
70 ressenyes
½ 3.5
Member
Bookmarque
Explicacions
Bookmarque: stupid woman, stupid premise - as if it would take a year for the accountant to tell her she had no money.
63
Holy Fire
de Bruce Sterling
1,092 membres
21 ressenyes
½ 3.4
Member
gilroy
64
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
de Kory Stamper
1,084 membres
64 ressenyes
4.2
Member
Bookmarque
Explicacions
Bookmarque: zzzzzzz
65
The Dark Monk
de Oliver Pötzsch
994 membres
40 ressenyes
½ 3.6
Member
hoddybook
66
Els Amics de l'Eddie Coyle
de George V. Higgins
942 membres
44 ressenyes
4
Member
Bookmarque
67
Penpal
de Dathan Auerbach
791 membres
46 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
Explicacions
Bookmarque: In my best Colonel Kurtz voice - the writing, the writing.
68
Petals of Blood
de Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
761 membres
14 ressenyes
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
69
The Tattooed Girl
de Joyce Carol Oates
742 membres
18 ressenyes
½ 3.3
Member
Bookmarque
Explicacions
Bookmarque: Hateful for hatefulness's sake.
70
The Complete Compleat Enchanter
de L. Sprague de Camp
732 membres
5 ressenyes
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
71
Mine
de Robert R. McCammon
714 membres
16 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
72
City of Dreams: A Novel of Nieuw Amsterdam and Early Manhattan
de Beverly Swerling
697 membres
15 ressenyes
3.9
Member
Diane-bpcb
Explicacions
Diane-bpcb: was this edited?
73
The Death of Jane Lawrence
de Caitlin Starling
663 membres
29 ressenyes
3.2
Member
Bookmarque
74
The Hiding Place
de C. J. Tudor
636 membres
48 ressenyes
½ 3.6
Member
Bookmarque
Explicacions
Bookmarque: an onslaught of cruelty, sadism, viciousness and violence.
75
Usher's Passing
de Robert R. McCammon
623 membres
18 ressenyes
3.8
Member
Bookmarque
76
Mara i Dann
de Doris Lessing
600 membres
22 ressenyes
3.9
Member
Bookmarque
Explicacions
Bookmarque: Too bleak. Dwells on the worst people do to each other. All. The. Time.
77
The Woman Who Stole My Life
de Marian Keyes
579 membres
13 ressenyes
½ 3.4
Member
Bookmarque
78
Sing Them Home
de Stephanie Kallos
546 membres
25 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Member
dara85
79
Altar of Bones
de Philip Carter
519 membres
19 ressenyes
½ 3.5
Member
Bookmarque
80
Complicit
de Nicci French
509 membres
22 ressenyes
½ 3.3
Member
Bookmarque
Explicacions
Bookmarque: Too stupid
81
Seeker
de William Nicholson
498 membres
15 ressenyes
3.8
Member
gilroy
82
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
de Jennifer Wright
495 membres
61 ressenyes
4
Member
Bookmarque
Explicacions
Bookmarque: Can't stand the tone of this book. Too snide, too judgmental, too flip.
84
The Birthing House
de Christopher Ransom
452 membres
32 ressenyes
2.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
85
Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel
de David Rakoff
449 membres
26 ressenyes
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
86
Surrender, New York: A Novel
de Caleb Carr
447 membres
27 ressenyes
2.9
Member
Bookmarque
Explicacions
Bookmarque: Very info-dumpy. Narrator likes the sound of his own voice. Terrible dialog.
87
Bad Twin
de Gary Troup
410 membres
22 ressenyes
2.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
88
Last Days
de Brian Evenson
406 membres
24 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
Explicacions
Bookmarque: So terrible I couldn't finish and returned it to Audible. Protagonist is an idiot among idiots.
89
The Dark Labyrinth
de Lawrence Durrell
406 membres
10 ressenyes
½ 3.6
Member
Bookmarque
Explicacions
Bookmarque: Too oblique.
90
Sea Change
de Robert Goddard
371 membres
2 ressenyes
½ 3.5
Member
Bookmarque
91
This One is Mine
de Maria Semple
350 membres
32 ressenyes
3.1
Member
Bookmarque
Explicacions
Bookmarque: These assholes deserve each other, but not my time.
92
Security: A Novel
de Gina Wohlsdorf
346 membres
67 ressenyes
½ 3.4
Member
Bookmarque
Explicacions
Bookmarque: Too stupid to finish.
93
Little Eve
de Catriona Ward
343 membres
12 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
94
The Third Hotel
de Laura Van den Berg
336 membres
16 ressenyes
3.2
Member
Bookmarque
Explicacions
Bookmarque: oddly unfocused writing, didn't engage w/protagonist
95
The Arrangement: A Novel
de Sarah Dunn
335 membres
20 ressenyes
½ 3.6
Member
Bookmarque
96
The Viking Funeral
de Stephen J. Cannell
311 membres
4 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
Explicacions
Bookmarque: Can't remember anything except that there was incorrect forensic detail.
97
Probable Cause
de Ridley Pearson
280 membres
3 ressenyes
½ 3.4
Member
Bookmarque
98
The Farfarers: Before the Norse
de Farley Mowat
271 membres
4 ressenyes
3.8
Member
arrwa
99
Reality and Dreams
de Muriel Spark
246 membres
10 ressenyes
3.1
Member
Bookmarque
Explicacions
Bookmarque: boring, self-involed, bossy asshole as a "protagonist"
100
The Paris Secret
de Karen Swan
222 membres
26 ressenyes
½ 3.5
Member
Bookmarque
Explicacions
Bookmarque: Desperate name dropping by the author. And it's a romance, which by itself isn't awful, but it's a stupid one.