Dropped Books

What are books that you started but have stopped reading?

Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
I managed to get around 100 pages in before the utter boredom struck me. I typically try to at least get 1/3 in a book before judging, but I don't want to trudge through 300 more pages to decide if I will continue reading.

Walter Jon Williams - Implied Spaces. This book is apallingly bad. It's so bad I'm not giving this author a second chance, even if This Is Not a Game sounds kind of cool. It's just this guy with a katana or something just goes around telling people what to do and then they do it for no apparent reason. I read 75% or so.

Mark Fabi - Wyrm. A computer virus treatment specialist discovers a bizarre new virus that's eating other viruses and optimizing other programs, for reasons unknown. It's planning an apocalypse or something? So our protagonist and some other guys have to enter a CRPG with near-magical capabilities and realism written by a computer genius that works at Totally Not Microsoft corporation, in order to defeat the virus. The book starts out tugging on the nerd nostalgia strings, then we're treated to a front-row view of the protagonist's uncomfortable romantic failure, and we get to see him use his martial arts (of course) skills when jumped, in the interludes between RPG playing.

God Bless you Mr.Rosewater (vonnegut)
Utopia (thomas moore)

There's probably a several more, but I can't remember them off the top my head right now. Sleepy.
If you include books I didn't finish because I couldn't understand them, or the learning involved exceeded my patience, then the list is much longer.

Maybe i'll reply later with a more comprehensive list. This is something I should explicitly keep track of anyway; gotta remember the books I don't enjoy.

War and Peace
Lord of the Rings (I've started and not finished all three books)
The Silmarillion
Dreamcatcher

These are just the most recent.  I couldn't possibly list off all the books I've quit partway through.

a canticle for leibowitz

it was good but after brother francis dies there are no relateable characters

>>$
You really should finish Lord of The Rings and The Silmarillion, they are rewarding eventually.

I always try and finish a book, even if I don't like it. God knows why. The only one on the list I need to go back to is Ulysses by James Joyce. I know it's a good book from the start, but he lost me a bit around the stream of consciousness stuff. I do like my full stops.

The crap Dune prequels by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.  I was complaining about how the book keeps explaining stuff it's already explained over 9000 times & my friend said, "Life's too short!"  I decided she was right.

I got thru Atlas Shrugged but fast forwarded most of the John Galt speech.

>>6

I abhor most of Tolkien's writing.  His stories are excellent, but his writing makes me want to scream.  Never gonna happen.  I liked The Hobbit, though!

I dropped Atlas Shrugged 300 pages in. Right at the start of the second part.

I did the exact same with Atlas Shrugged, fuck those trains are boring.

Last book I dropped was "Vampire Academy", a book my GF wanted me to read. I stopped after 5 pages or so because the writing was horrendous.

Before that I stopped reading "A Brief History of Time and Space" by Stephen Hawking about 1/2 through. The book isn't long, only a few hundred pages, but I lost track of all of the information when they started talking about quarks and spinning shit.

Catch 22.  Atlas Shrugged AND the Fountainhead.  Ulysses.  An Isaac Asimov story about people on a spaceship.

>>10
OP here, I somewhat dropped the Hawking book as well. At the beginning everything was great, but then they started discussing quarks and other odd terms like you said, and I finally lost interest when I realized that I was simply looking at words and not understanding their meaning. I could go back and really learn what the book was talking about, but I doubt I will anytime soon.

>>11

UGhh, Ulysses. I could've put that one down, but it's barely worth mentioning because I didn't get far at all. How many people have dropped this book in the history since it was penned? Millions. Billions?

james joyce owns

Eon. I think I missed something inportant. I love the setting\people but I just need to start over and make a better effort to comprehend this shit. I will start pg1 again in a month or so.

I can't read William Gibson and have dropped nuromancer and spook country. I love the stories he tells, but... It's like we think on different wavelengths. Something he is doing is not being comprehended by me and my enjoyment suffers.

Blue Mars, same problems as above.

>>11
ow the fuck could you drop Catch 22? I've read that book 3 times, you really should go back and finish it.

>>11
Catch 22 is an excellent book

The first time I tried reading it, though, I stopped. Months later I picked it up again and loved it.

I couldn't for the life of me get into Fahrenheit 451... I read a chapter and dropped it...

I almost dropped Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut... but after a three month break I picked it up and finished it.

I should have dropped the WoT series somewhere after the fourth book....

Disgrace - J. M. Coetzee.
God I was so irritated by the main character. I wanted to kick him squarely in the balls. What a fucking misanthrope.

Divine Comedy
Kalevala
The Gunslinger (Dark Tower)

Despite this list only being in 3, I have a very good record of forcing myself through mostly anything.  Though it may take about 4-5 times.

I got Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
The complete trilogy in five parts.
I CANNOT get past the fifth part when he gets back to England and it get romanticy.

Someone tell me if it get fun again...

i forgot all the books i have dropped untill reading this post.

blue mars.
ulysses.
similarion
one dune book not by frank herbert. dont know which one.

also crimson petal and the white.

>>21
Yes. Brilliant end to a series, you must finish it.

>>23

Really.
Okay I will finish it.

>>24
Cool.
The book isn't that long, post back here when you get to the end of it.

>>25

will do

bah none of you have fully read Atlas Shrugged?
Red it twice my self, and the Jonh Galt Speech is pretty much the most important part of the book.

Catch 22, humor got a bit repetitive.
A Song of Ice and Fire, every character sucks or they get killed and the interesting part at the very start is completely ignored for 3 books.