What books have you started...

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... and not been able to finish?

The unabridged version of Moby Dick is one. It feels like 100 pages in Melville is still banging on about Queequeg's bloody tattoos! The only English teacher I had at school that I had any respect for told me I would be able to read it when I turned 40. I have tried twice since I turned 40, and god knows how many times before and I can't do it.

The other book is one I have been reading for nearly 2 years on and off. 1967: Israel, the War, and the Year that Transformed the Middle East. I got it on the recommendation of a Jewish guy I see at work at times. We were chatting about the middle east and I told him I didn't really understand it all. He told me to read that book. Sweet jesus, I think peace might actually come to the place before I finish it.

Both books I dearly want to finish some day.
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The dogs of war. Vietnam War fictional book given to me by my uncle when I joined up. I have taken it everywhere with me but for some reason I have never finished it. As I was given a new bookcase just before chrissy I put all my books back up and it isnt anywhere to be found. :(
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Tom Clancy's Debt of Honor is one of only two books I haven't made it to the end of, due to it being utterly shit. :D

I read The Sum of All Fears and enjoyed it despite its Hollywood silliness and casual racism. :)

So I picked up Debt of Honor, which is awful. I know it's Clancy so you expect a certain level of jingoism but there is barely a page without some reference to America or Americans being some kind of faultless, superhuman race that every other country wants to emulate. He clearly can't be arsed researching the cultures he writes about as his foreign characters have a handy tendency to use American phrases that they "picked up from watching Amercian TV", or "learnt when they were in Amercia".
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I read a Tom Clancy book once, couldn't believe how awful it was :fall:

Stephen King's The Stand... though I plan to finish it one day :D
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Lord of the Rings - far too boring.
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kwijibo wrote:Lord of the Rings - far too boring.
Funny thing, when I was a kid I thought the same, read only part of the 1st book. Then later I've read the whole thing. Then again. And then again... :)
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kwijibo wrote:Lord of the Rings - far too boring.
+1

I even walked out of the movie I was just so fricken bored.
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Sort of for lord of the rings. Love the books but dad died when I was reading the last book. Have never managed to finish it.
A book called "World War: In the balance" which was an alt history WWII tale which had aliens turning up in the middle of WW2. Sounded cool, but damn it was boring.
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pogo wrote:Stephen King's The Stand... though I plan to finish it one day :D
yes its dreadfully slow, but i read it!

I read the bourne identity and then started the 2nd book, (the bourne conspiracty? i think) and it was just blegh. this was after the movies were out. so silly he knows who he is and everything right at the end of the first book.
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NeilPearson wrote:
pogo wrote:Stephen King's The Stand... though I plan to finish it one day :D
yes its dreadfully slow, but i read it!
Yeah, I got two books for chrissy, one that I've already torn through [*], so after I read the next one........ back to The Stand.... honest :fall: I'm 2/3rds of the way through it, so I figure I'm past the point of no return :D

* Meltdown, by Ben Elton. I read all his stuff - so simple and magazine-like in that you can read for a couple of hours, or just pick it up for 10 minutes. Often funny, fast-paced and thought-provoking.
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I've been reading Andy McNab's Bravo Two Zero for about a year now... It's not that its a bad book... I just keep seeing other books to read which throw me off track a bit lol
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Currently I am going to start

"Atonement" by Ian McEwan
"Amsterdam" by Ian McEwan
"The Constant Princess" by Phillipa Gregory
"Queen of This Realm" by Jean Plaidy
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I can't decide whether to watch movies online or to just watch movies??
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smithcorp wrote:Great post! It's very nice. Thank you so much for your post.
I agree, thanks for the awesome plug Kavin! :D
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I've tried to read Don Quixote twice so far. I get lost and start thinking I have a bad translation or the author was mental.

Might try again soon because I managed to get through War & Peace not too long ago. This year I've read Outlaws of the Marsh and I'm almost finished Three Kingdoms, both of which are over 2000 pages and a bit of a slog at times.
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kwijibo wrote:Lord of the Rings - far too boring.
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