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Books you put down and can't go back to?
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TheJovialGnome



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PostPosted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 6:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Lizzy - Mark is *this close* to making you a paid member of his staff - good work!!! Wink


Does a dedication in the front of Jack of Ravens count Question

Glad you stuck with it Selik, you'll find it was well worth it in the end Very Happy They're even better the second time around as you pick up bits you missed that enhance the story. By the way, how are you getting on with Gormenghast Question
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 10:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

lol, the dreaded question. I've not got any further with it. Been that busy recently I just want something to read that I don't have to really think hard about and try to concentrate on, so it's sat on the bookshelf for when I feel slightly more intelligent. Razz
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 8:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

TheJovialGnome wrote:
Max Power wrote:


Lizzy - Mark is *this close* to making you a paid member of his staff - good work!!! Wink


Does a dedication in the front of Jack of Ravens count Question



LOL, I did see his comment on your myspace Max, and yes Jov, I reckon I have been 'paid' handsomely Mr. Green

Back to topic, I tend to finish books I start but the hardest slog I can remember of the last couple of years has been Gormenghastly....
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 9:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, I once started to read Ulysses, I think I got till page 15 or so Laughing, I also didn't finish Dublin by Edward Rutherford, and I've started Master & Margarita months ago, and haven't read a page for ages...
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I got to page 94 of that Orizon book I got free from Fancon. Way too preachy for my liking. Anyone else read it and managed to make it through?
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 12:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, I've dumped all of the following at various stages:

* The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant - Read the first one, hated it. Didn't go back. For some reason I just couldn't seem to identify with a perenially miserable rapist...

* The Wheel of Time - Got halfway through book one and realised that life's just too damn short.

* Shaman's Crossing (Hobb) - I was gutted because I've loved every minute of every Hobb book so far, and every Megan Lidnholm I've read as well, but I just can't stand the whole regency romance / manners thing, so when a large chunk of that loomed on the horizon, I just couldn't bring myself to go on...

* Dawnthief - Now, before you all lynch me, I put it down after a chapter, the first time I tried to read it... a bit too gung-ho American-esque for my frame of mind at the time... but I did pick it back up again once I got to know James and thoroughly enjoyed it the second time around.

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 4:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

For me it was the classic - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring when I was a wee whipper snapper.

Book I wished I'd put down - David Eddings' The Treasured One. Groan.
I enjoyed his earlier works, The Belgariad & The Mallorean, but the new books are sooo boring.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 10:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Robert Jordan part 7......

Terry Goodkind....also part 7 I think....Sister of Darkness...

These books never seem to end....
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 10:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

well actually lord of the rings (don?t kill me please)
i really love the story and the movies but the books....
probably too difficult to read for me Confused
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 10:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sonea wrote:
well actually lord of the rings (don?t kill me please)
i really love the story and the movies but the books....
probably too difficult to read for me Confused


Read LOTR 10 years ago...took me a while but I've finished them....after the movies I tried again, got stuck in part 1 and never looked at it again. LOTR is pretty boring compared to modern fantasy....
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 10:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i think so too Very Happy
but i love the story =)
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 11:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nah, I love the depth in LOTR. It's not boring, it's just geared more towards history and characters than violence.
Rock on Prof. Tolkien!
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 7:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

With you all the way there Grace and I love the slightly archaic writing style - let's face it, there's room for everyone Very Happy
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 11:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yet oddly enough a lot of publishers wouldn't touch it were Tolkien to try getting it published nowadays... werid how things change...
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 12:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

3 times i have tried to read Eye of the World by Jordan, and three times i have failed. I even tried reading it when it was split into two books: from the two rivers and i couldnt finish that either! I don't know what it is, because the story sounds good, but i just can't finish it!
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