What Book Do You Wish You Did Not Read, AT All & To The End?

I read Stephen King's "Insomnia", and even though I bored my socks off reading it, even though I didn't find it the least bit intriguing even as I finished half of the book, I kept on reading the damn thing! I dunno, maybe I kept thinking that King was saving the best for last....but as I reached the last page, I discovered that I should've let go of the book a long long time ago.

"Junkie" by William Burroughs. I read it about the time it came out when it as supposed to be timely and all that. I tried to read him again. Sometimes people try to hard to find something where there is absolutly nothing.

The (brown) Eye of the World
The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan

I read this book at the insistance of my roomate and all of my other friends. I read and i read and i read and i read, and when it was finally over I felt I'd read a badly written remake of David Eddings the Belgariad. Robert jordan goes on and on and on and I hate every word he puts to paper. I've often thought that the only way i could get through the whole gawdawful series is if there were Cliff's Notes or reader's digest condensed books versions of the same. But that's just wishful thinking as those two formats are immensly detestable, regardless of which book was shortened.

Beware the Jordan!

Try "Christine."

"The Mummy" starts out slow but becomes pretty good too.

"Washington Square" by Henry James. I kept waiting for something to happen, but nothing ever did. Very little plot.

"There is no place in Earth For me" by Susan Sheehan - God, I finally finished it just because I don't like to leave books half way through it took me 4 yrs.

In my senior year we had to do this in depth report on a book of our choice from the school library. I always wanted to read Robinson Crusoe and thought here was my chance. 19 pages in I had to put it away. It bored me to tears and it was the first book I started and never finished. I don't even know if it picked up at all. My teacher was none to happy about me changing my book mid assignment. She recommended me to a book that she herself had never read, but was recommended to her titled AMERICA. This book turned out to actually be three books that made up a trilogy called America. I tried reading the first of the series, but all I got out of it was some bum of a guy who slept with every girl he met including his own elderly aunt. Needless to say I did not finish that either and flubbed my way through the report. Luckily, since even my teacher had never read the book she didn't catch any of the very deep B.S. I used in my report. I got an A.

Another book I never got through was Walden. I adored the first chapter and was looking forward to the rest of the book. It tanked for me after that first chapter. A whole chapter on the whistle of a train? A chapter on the moo of a cow?! Now I like descriptive writing but I just couldn't handle that.

Now these were all books for school that I never even finished. As for ones that I did and still don't know why The Bohr Maker (I forget the author) Some horrible sci-fi plot(less) bilge that I stubbornly hoped would get better but never did. I closed the last page and thought "What the hell was that? I paid for this?!"

"The Illuminatus Trilogy" by Shea and Wilson. It was just plain awful and a waste of time.

The Great Train Robbery" by Crichton. Started out good, but by the end I was as bored reading it as he seemed writing it.

I used to consider myself an enormous Stephen King fan.. I have every book he has ever published.. even his childrens books. ( yes.. childrens books ) Until I noticed a pattern.... His opening on his stories.. Like it, his plot building... like it ... character development .. like it... then WHOEVER he pays to end his stories.. hate it. HAHAHA And if he isnt paying anyone , he cant end a story for s**t! Never! So needless to say, I dropped him . > that had nothing to do with the thread hehe <

Theone book i truly hated reading / finishing was Maya Angelou's first book. Forgotten the title due to alzheimers and a few other brain farts...
anyway... I thought it was SOOO inflated with Oprah hype that I didnt see where it earned publication?( My opinion.. I know.. ) I had a hard time staying in the book , but I kept reading it in hopes to find the 'mentor' wisdom that was supposed to be all over in there.........



im still looking......

shewolf, I agree 100%. King's books are not literarily sound. He often seems to just end them without tying in all the foreshadowing. The last one of his I read was Bag of Bones. Talk about nonsense.

There was a book he wrote that contained four novelettes which I liked. One was called The Body, another, the Shawshank Redemption. Not bad.

Another book that I read in college that I finished and had no idea if I liked it or not, was By Loved Possessed.

I just read bag of bones last month.... I think I would have been better off reading field and stream while on the toilet! hehehe
Just in case you were curious, Dreamcatcher... dont bother. I read that one too. S-S-D-S ( same s**t diffrent story )
His ideas are getting repetative.. and granted , that is what made him good... i think it is also what makes him . .. well.. suck.

Has anyone read the book' Gal?'

Harry Potter 4 + 5
Waste of time

Linda Nagata wrote The Bohr Maker. To each is own I guess because I really enjoyed it.

It was interesting early on but lost steam real quickly. I never finished it.

A Confederacy of Dunces

Farts are as funny to me as to the next guy, but the gastronomical rumblings of Ignatius J. Reilly were too much to take.

I never finished it.

The Bible. The ending was so predictable: Jesus saying he'll come back and save everyone? Oh wow, I expected him to say "Humanity is screwed. You killed me once, no second chances. Don't even bother worshipping me for 2,000+ years, I'm not changing my mind."