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



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 1:49 pm    Post subject: Books you put down and can't go back to? Reply with quote

Have you ever picked up a book you fancy, read part of it, put it down and never gone back to?

Best example for me would be the 2nd chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen Donaldson. Read the first lot, enjoyed them, picked up this brezzeblock of a book, got about half-way through before being distracted by work and stuff at home. That was about 2 years ago and I still can't bring myself to go back to it... decent enough read, though it's like swimming through treacle.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 1:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Chaz Brenchly book that Lizzy read recently, cant remember the name of it but i got 30 pages in and tossed across the room.

funnily enough the LotR book (all 3 togther) 300 pages and put it down.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 2:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i always finish every book even if its painful...and some are...especially 1st person books!
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 2:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ah - there's another one, cheers fof reminding me Gen. Robin Hobb's first book in that Assassin's Apprentice trilogy. I can't abide 1st person books so that one got put down after about 50 pages and has since been given away.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 2:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i liked that series actually...but i cant abide the new series, especially forest mage!...still finished it though!
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Selik



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 2:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Admittedly not a fantasy, this particular one, but Iain Banks' 'Dead Air'. Now I would always give a book a far go, but 33 pages into it and i'm bored... really bored and I couldn't give a toss what happens to the characters.
Similarly Iain McEwan's 'Enduring Love' I did at A-level, again the same, though I was forced to sit and read it, but I hated it... oh and 'Of Mice and Men'. I can't stand that book (GCSE's), Hmm, I'm beginning to see a pattern emerging.

Fantasy wise, there's no book i've not been able to withstand so far. I did start Robin Hobbs' Shaman's Crossing and I put it down and never went back, but I do intend to, because it wasn't because I didn't like it that I put it down.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 2:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I must admit I did the same with a Mark Chadbourn one, though it was years ago and I can't remember whether it was the 2nd or 3rd one... anyway, the point where I put it down was where the characters were all on a boat with the T-Danan lot heading off to somewhere I can't remember.

Odd really, you'd think it'd have got interesting sailing off to another realm as it were... Shocked

But I WILL go back to these. Lizzy's vehement support of them over the last year or so has convinced me I should! Razz

edit: sly little one as per Lou's advice! Very Happy
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 2:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

L E Modsett jr's the death of chaos. I wished I had the sense to put it down.



600+ pages of wood carving.......zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 2:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Drizzt wrote:
I must admit I did the same witha Mark Chadbourne one, though it was years ago and I can't remember whether it was the 2nd or 3rd one... anyway, the point where I put it down was where the characters were all on a boat with the T-Danan lot heading off to somewhere I can't remember.

Odd really, you'd think it'd have got interesting sailing off to another realm as it were... Shocked

But I WILL go back to these. Lizzy's vehement support of them over the last year or so has convinced me I should! Razz


And mine now i've been reading them Smile Oh and before Lizzy sees, it's without the 'e'. Razz
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 2:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Duly edited milady.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 3:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I suspect Mark C wouldn't give two hoots how you spell his name, long as you buy his books Razz
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 4:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

or not as the case may be!
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 6:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No, I'm s sucker for punishment and subscribe to the Magnus Magnusson maxim of "I've started so I'll finish" Laughing
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 6:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I struggled with The tales of Lankhmar from Fritz Leiber. Loved them as a youngster but had to stop reading about a 1/3 way through this year.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 7:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Robert Jordans Wheel of time, 3 books through and I just couldn't go on any longer, I regret not being able to enjoy the books.
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