Books You Couldn't Finish
- Descripción
- 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
por Charles Dickens
38,447 miembros
435 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 181
Puntuacion -4
Añadido 2013-11-26, 07:52 PM
- 2 Members
- Cecrow, ahef1963, ,merrystar ,Crypto-Willobie ,waltzmn ,starbox ,ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- Cecrow: Couldn't manage it as a teen, but will definitely try again.merrystar : I did finish this, but only because it was required reading for a course. It remains my least favorite Dickens.
2
por H. G. Wells
1,190 miembros
19 reseñas
½ 3.3
Ranking Global 148
Puntuacion 0
Añadido 2017-09-14, 08:02 AM
3
por Robertson Davies
3,226 miembros
87 reseñas
4.2
Ranking Global 176
Puntuacion -2
Añadido 2017-09-14, 08:02 AM
- Member
- Cecrow, , ,Crypto-Willobie
- Explicaciones
- Cecrow: Intend to try again
4
por Samuel R. Delany
3,730 miembros
74 reseñas
3.8
Ranking Global 24
Puntuacion 1
Añadido 2017-09-14, 08:02 AM
5
por Richard Adams
2,191 miembros
40 reseñas
½ 3.7
Ranking Global 146
Puntuacion 0
Añadido 2017-09-14, 08:03 AM
- Member
- Cecrow,ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- Cecrow: Not nearly so engaging as Watership Down, I thought.
6
por Joseph Heller
39,990 miembros
525 reseñas
4.1
Ranking Global 168
Puntuacion -2
Añadido 2017-09-14, 08:03 AM
- Member
- Cecrow,gilroy ,Crypto-Willobie ,dtw42
- Explicaciones
- Cecrow: Couldn't grapple with the writing style, but will try again sometime.
7
por Sheila Burnford
5,716 miembros
71 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 139
Puntuacion 0
Añadido 2017-09-14, 08:03 AM
- Member
- Cecrow,ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- Cecrow: Maybe it gets better, but an uphill battle through its opening chapter. Not worth the effort.
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por Umberto Eco
19,512 miembros
310 reseñas
4.2
Ranking Global 171
Puntuacion -2
Añadido 2014-02-25, 08:16 PM
- 4 Members
- SimoneA, hoddybook, fuzzi, Diane-bpcb, , ,Cecrow ,merrystar ,Crypto-Willobie ,dtw42
- Explicaciones
- Cecrow : Defending: the language is thick, but the mystery is solid and based on the Sherlock Holmes model.merrystar : Not my favorite by this author, but still readable.Diane-bpcb: Was not interested enough in the story to try to follow the complexity of it
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por Richard Adams
24,891 miembros
471 reseñas
4.2
Ranking Global 170
Puntuacion -2
Añadido 2014-02-28, 01:41 AM
- 2 Members
- starbox, Diane-bpcb,lorax ,Cecrow ,waltzmn ,ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- Cecrow : One of the best animal perspective novels, if not THE best.
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por Herman Melville
35,558 miembros
541 reseñas
3.8
Ranking Global 129
Puntuacion 0
Añadido 2014-02-26, 11:03 PM
- 3 Members
- Crypto-Willobie, cej1027, Diane-bpcb, ,Cecrow ,ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- Cecrow : Skip the whaling detail chapters if you must, but they build sympathy for the whale and add a strong dose of realism.
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42,563 miembros
1,121 reseñas
½ 4.4
Ranking Global 154
Puntuacion -1
Añadido 2016-12-31, 09:35 PM
- 2 Members
- lorax, merrystar, ,Cecrow ,ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- lorax: I actually finished this one, gave up after Book 2, but there's no one book to determine if you're a fantasy fan. You can dislike this, because of the violence or for any other reason, and still consider yourself a fantasy fan.Cecrow : Any fantasy aficionado read this as a breath of fresh air when it was first published, and the genre has not been the same since.merrystar: Have to disagree with Cecrow; I have always read and enjoyed fantasy, but could not finish this when I tried to read it in the late 1990s.
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por Lemony Snicket
15,097 miembros
185 reseñas
½ 3.7
Ranking Global 131
Puntuacion 0
Añadido 2015-05-20, 10:18 PM