Do you own books and never read them?

I have boxes of books I never read.  Perhaps it is bibliomania.

Some. I like to load up on second-hand books at book fairs, but I have limited reading time.

bibles

I've got 11 fiction in the bookcase I either haven't read or only partly:
American Spendor - Harvey Pekar: got this a birthday or christmas years ago :\
Don Quixote - Cervantes: got to page 732
short story collection vol 4 - Philip K. Dick: read parts
The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens: wanted to start on Dickens, went with wrong book, very low brow of me :(
The Great Dune Trilogy - Frank Herbert: read Dune but not the second and third part, I've heard the quality drops afte the first three books and then then 2 and 3 aren't as good either
The Complete Chronicles of Conan - Robert E. Howard: read parts
Les Miserabes - Victor Hugo
The Garden Party (and other stories) - Katherine Mansfield: had this for Year 11 literature, didn't read it then and six years later still haven't
Tales of Mystery and Imagination - Edgar Allan Poe
Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson: been putting this off for years
Tierra del Fuego - Jennifer Strauss: same as Garden Party
meanwhile in the non-fiction:
The Crimes of Patriots - Jonathan Kwitny
Out of Control - Leslie Cockburn
Bad Samaritans - Ha-joon Chang
Discovering Orson Welles - Jonathan Rosenbaum

>>4
>The Great Dune Trilogy - Frank Herbert: read Dune but not the second and third part, I've heard the quality drops afte the first three books and then then 2 and 3 aren't as good either

You heard wrong.  The best book in the series is actually book 4.  God Emperor .... so fuckin' good, mate.  1 and 6 are the other classics in the series.  2, 3, and 5 are all very good but I wouldn't say amazing.  You should keep reading the series.

I don't want to get all spoilerish about it, but wait til you get to the Enchanted Forest.

I probably have bibliomania (I think?) It's not that I don't read, I just keep buying books/people give me gift certificates for books. I always end up pulling the biggest book out of my shelf, which means in the span of reading one book, I could have read 5.

whatever guise its not a race

>>4
You need to read your Red Mars. That is not a book to put off.

>>7

I heard it was.

>>8
You heard wrong. The whole series is great.

>>7
You really should have recommended one of the many books that are actually worth reading

I solved my unreasoning bibliomaniac's hoarding instinct by becoming a book dealer. I now create collections and then sell them, as well as individual books. I limit myself to reading cheap editions that I can mistreat and discard.

>>10
Are we reading the same >>7?

I have like 5 Toni Morrison books that I haven't even cracked the covers on. Then again I just wanted one of her books and my wife bought me a stack...

I also haven't opened a Princess Bride, One Flew over teh Cuckoo's Nest, The Crossing, All the Pretty Horses, Suttree, The Orchard Keeper, a Yankee in King Arthur's Court, three of the Hyperion books and... shit I need to get back on track with my reading.

>>11

Cool we should hang out.

>>12
You like boring, bland science fiction. That's fine, but there are much better books to read.

GUYS LETS NOT ARGUE ABOUT HOW BORING RED MARS IS JUST BECAUSE IT'S BORING

>>15
You have no imagination or attention span. NOTHING IS EXPLODING RIGHT NOW THIS BOOK IS SO BORING. Maybe a summer movie would be more your speed.

>>17
Red Mars has less imagination than I do

>>18
Impossible.

I bought a bunch of Hemingway and I haven't gotten around to reading it yet.

guy who wrote this list >>4 here - I have read and enjoyed The Years of Rice and Salt

I bought an antique copy of Seven Gothic Tales at a thrift shop, read the first few pages and never touched it again.  I like the way it looks though, so I'm still glad I bought it.

Yeah, that happens to me sometimes. Usually only if I buy too many books at a time--they distract me from one another.

I have dozens of books I never finished. If a book doesn't interest me I don't bother. I just shelve it and find another.

That's why I don't buy books. I just use the library and if I don't like something I return it and get 5 more.

One of 'em have to interest me.

>>4
>>21
me again.
Okay I've finished Hammetts The Glass Key (thats one cold blooded ending btw), returning to The Great Dune Trilogy http://www.sfsite.com/gra/0602/dulg.jpg - this is one big motherfucker, bigger than a brick - and now reading Dune Messiah.
So far its the Algonquin Round Table with guest appearances by the Benne Gesserit Reverand Mother & Princess Irulan, a Guild navigator, and a Face Dancer.

      I have boxes of books I never read.  Perhaps it is dyslexia.