I Can't Finish This Book

Descripció
Based on the tag "unfinished".
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1,012 ressenyes
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gilroy, Dilara86, ahef1963, Peace2,ManWithAnAgenda
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ahef1963: I didn't think I could handle the outcome of having a hungry lion on board, so I quit reading.
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dara85, Cariola, aulsmith, ahef1963, Eritch,Charon07
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aulsmith: I loved the historical parts, but the modern parts left me cold.
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aulsmith, chgstrom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, ,merrystar
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aulsmith: It reads more like notes than a novel. I don't think I got past page 20.
merrystar : I like parts of this much better than others, but I did finish it.
ahef1963: I was given a lovely edition of this book by my mother when I was a teenager, but it is more shelf ornament than book I have read.
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Cariola, Eritch
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gilroy, ahef1963, Eritch, Charon07, , ,merrystar ,ManWithAnAgenda
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ahef1963: I've tried multiple times, but I cannot get through it.
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Cariola, ahef1963, Peace2,ManWithAnAgenda
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ManWithAnAgenda : It wasn't very good, but I finished it.
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aulsmith, Dilara86
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aulsmith: Since it's not linear, I don't know if it's meant to be finished. I sample it from time to time
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Cariola, Charon07
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merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda
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merrystar: This is the only assigned reading I ever didn't finish.
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aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda
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aulsmith: Having read Coriolanus, I'm convinced no one should have to read all of Shakespeare.
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dianeham
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ahef1963, PoetVictoria,ManWithAnAgenda
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PoetVictoria: I liked the idea of the book, but the book itself was relentless and repetitive. I am glad I read some of it, though. Interesting real life stuff.
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merrystar
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PoetVictoria
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PoetVictoria: I just didn't like it.
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aulsmith, ahef1963,merrystar
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aulsmith: I read the first chapter and found the stuff they borrowed for Star Trek II. I had a friend who wrote three university papers having only read the first chapter.
merrystar : list duplicate
ahef1963: Have never read past the first chapter or so, despite several attempts.
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aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda,
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aulsmith: I never thought of this a book to finish, more like an anthology to sample from as the mood takes you.
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PoetVictoria
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PoetVictoria: endless details without enough heart, although I was interested in finding out what happens next, I finally just gave up.
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Cariola
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Cariola: Hated this! It started out as a novel about repressed homosexuality in the Victorian era and a bit of a mystery--then BAM
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ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,
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ahef1963: I keep losing track of who's who, and give up.
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chwiggy
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PoetVictoria
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PoetVictoria: The men were very unattractive and this book was all about the men.
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dara85
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dianeham
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Cariola
Explicacions
Cariola: Probably the worst, most pretentious pieces of Shakespearean criticism I've ever read. Applies pop psychology to Hamlet.
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Peace2
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aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda,merrystar
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aulsmith: Never got through the Iliad, but I loved the Odyssey.
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dianeham
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dara85
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PoetVictoria
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PoetVictoria: too druggy.
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Peace2
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merrystar
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Peace2
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dianeham
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dara85
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PoetVictoria
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PoetVictoria: It seemed like it would be an interesting period, but I got bored with it.
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Cariola
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aulsmith
Explicacions
aulsmith: Got to page 2
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dianeham
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Cariola
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Cariola: As a Kunzru fan, I was SO disappointed!
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dara85
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Cariola
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Cariola: Truly awful.
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Eritch
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dara85
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Cariola
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ahef1963
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Cariola
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Cariola: Poorly written and melodramatic.
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Cariola
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ahef1963
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aulsmith
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aulsmith: I was somewhat shocked at the beginning and put it down. Now I've read so much biography, I'm not sure I'd enjoy the original.
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Cariola
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aulsmith
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Cariola
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Cariola
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Cariola: I know a lot of readers loved this one; I was just bored to tears.
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aulsmith
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Cariola
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aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda,
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aulsmith: Fell asleep during the opening about insomnia and never picked it up again.
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Cariola
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ahef1963
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ahef1963: Got lost in all the seafaring language. I don't know port from starboard!
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Cariola
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Cariola
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ahef1963
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Cariola