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.

Atando cabos

por E. Annie Proulx

13,430 miembros

250 reseñas

3.9

Ranking Global 172

Member: Diane-bpcb,Crypto-Willobie ,starbox ,ManWithAnAgenda
Explicaciones: Diane-bpcb: Although I loved this book at first, owing to the dockside atmosphere and Proulx's use of hard consonants, I lost interest.

City of Dreams: A Novel of Nieuw Amsterdam and Early Manhattan

por Beverly Swerling

697 miembros

15 reseñas

3.9

Ranking Global 72

Member: Diane-bpcb
Explicaciones: Diane-bpcb: was this edited?

Juicio y sentimiento

por Jane Austen

38,087 miembros

525 reseñas

4.1

Ranking Global 169

Member: Diane-bpcb,merrystar ,starbox ,ManWithAnAgenda
Explicaciones: Diane-bpcb: have started this many times; never got far into it despite my being a Jane Austen fan.

El mar

por John Banville

5,417 miembros

172 reseñas

½ 3.5

Ranking Global 140

2 Members: Minthe, Diane-bpcb,Crypto-Willobie ,starbox

Ex Libris

por Anne Fadiman

4,551 miembros

213 reseñas

4.2

Ranking Global 174

Member: Diane-bpcb, ,merrystar ,Crypto-Willobie

El Nombre de la Rosa

por Umberto Eco

19,512 miembros

310 reseñas

4.2

Ranking Global 171

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

Middlemarch

por George Eliot

17,706 miembros

330 reseñas

4.2

Ranking Global 156

Member: Diane-bpcb,starbox ,ManWithAnAgenda
Explicaciones: Diane-bpcb: Too painful for me; reminds me too much of my Protestant roots

La colina de Watership

por Richard Adams

24,891 miembros

471 reseñas

4.2

Ranking Global 170

2 Members: starbox, Diane-bpcb,lorax ,Cecrow ,waltzmn ,ManWithAnAgenda
Explicaciones: Cecrow : One of the best animal perspective novels, if not THE best.

Cumbres borrascosas

por Emily Brontë

51,937 miembros

702 reseñas

3.9

Ranking Global 180

Member: Diane-bpcb, ,merrystar ,fuzzi ,starbox ,ManWithAnAgenda
Explicaciones: merrystar : I finished it, but can't say I liked it particularly
fuzzi : Did finish, though I despised the characters.

Moby Dick

por Herman Melville

35,558 miembros

541 reseñas

3.8

Ranking Global 129

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.