Ever read a book so bad that you actaully stopped reading?

[chad_quixote]

catcher in the rye took me almost 10 months to finish

 

[Appleshampoo]

Mogworld? You couldn't finish... Mogworld?

I'll try to contain my frothing animalistic fanboy rage.

Don't get me wrong it had its funny moments, but in the second half they are few and far between. and maybe i'm just a little slow but it also got quite confusing for me.

I agree with the second half thing. It just kinda...gets crappy.

And I also agree with the people saying lord of the rings was boring, because it is. You can't argue that the 100th song/description of a fuckin' wall/poem is exciting, because it's not.

I stopped reading the wheel of time. That was just...awful.

 

[TheDawgg]

The dreaming void or one of the void books. It was just bad.

 

[Dadza]

Around the World in 80 Days - This book is just boring and annoying! Yes a book and annoying. The movie wasn't any better.

 

[Ti0k0]

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov; it's about the devil coming to earth, but after a while the story just stops being interesting...

 

[TankCopter]

Most of the time I will persist with a book even if I don't like it (I managed to finish The Stand despite it being among one of the most boring horror novels I have ever read), but these two I gave up on ever finishing:

The Greatest Show On Earth - Richard Dawkins. I bought it out of curiosity, and then I had to slog to get halfway through before giving up. The whole book is written like he thinks everyone is stupid.

Atlas Shrugged - I didn't even finish the first 10 chapters. I just couldn't get into it.

 

[Skratt]

I will probably catch a lot of shit for this, but Lord of the Rings.

I completely agree. How many pages was he droning on about the damn elves leaving? It was just boring.

Good to know I wasn't alone.

 

[ReservoirAngel]

Under the Dome by Stephen King.

I nearly stopped when he describes (in detail) a murdered girl shitting all over a kitchen floor. Then I finally did stop when said murderer went back and had sex with the corpse.

 

[Crazy]

I'm only forced to read bad books, so I just tread through it until I see the light from the other end of the horrible tunnel.

 

[Nemu]

Moby Dick


Ugh...awful, awful, awful. I even tried reading it as an adult, having vowed to finish it before I turned 30.
Never happened.

I will probably catch a lot of shit for this, but Lord of the Rings.

I completely agree. How many pages was he droning on about the damn elves leaving? It was just boring.

Good to know I wasn't alone.

I started with The Hobbit.

I couldn't get through it, so I never tried the rest of the series. ><

 

[darthotaku]

I read this one book that was a twilight ripoff that replaced vampires with alchemy. the only positive thing that can be said about it is that the author looked up what alchemy was before writing a book about it.

 

[Sargonza]

Moby Dick.

I am an avid reader and will read pretty much everything but this book...
I have started it twice now, and both times gave up around page 20. The sad thing is that I really couldn't tell you why I find it so mind-crushingly dull -- I have finished books which are much more poorly written, possibly out of morbid curiousity to find out how the ending rather than because I'm enjoying it.

 

[Rockbottom87]

War and Peace, mostly due to the fact that there were like 5 or 6 storylines, with many people having the same name! I am pretty sure there were about 3 or 4 Nicolais. I could just never figure out which one was which. And then when I finally understand a storyline... LOL NEW STORYLINE FOR YA, DEAL WITH IT!

 

[j0frenzy]

Yeah this peace of crap right here.

http://www.amazon.com/Wizards-First-Rule-Sword-Truth/dp/0812548051

Bought it when my bookstore was selling it or a dollar in some promo to promote the latest release in the series and got about a 100 pages in and just stopped. It was so paint by numbers I couldnt bring myself to go on. People tell me the later books are great, and they very well may be right... but you know what? I dont care. Book didnt hook me and I see no reason to suffer along in the hopes that it gets better. I tried that with Wheel of Time and I got through 6 books before I realized that this really was as good as it was going to get... never again.

And trust me, it got worse. You missed most of the crappy moralizing, pointless debates, the main character being an idiot and an asshat and the torture/rape mage. I got to around page 700 and had to eventually call it quits. I mourned the lost time, but realized I just couldn't stand it anymore. And then I looked up what happened at the end. So I happy I lost all love for that book.

 

[Alphavillain]

I wasn't so keen on "The Human Stain" by Philip Roth, but I think I really should give it another try. I've also come to a grinding halt on "Brideshead Revisited".

 

[rokkolpo]

I eventually finished it but Kite Runner was a real struggle for me. It was definitely worth finishing but about half way through I wanted to reach through the pages and throttle the main character.

Agreed.
That guy was a friend betraying bastard.

Also the story got really shit the moment they arrived in America.
Land of opportunity and boredom.
(With that I mean how the book introduced me to America)

 

[Ti0k0]

Under the Dome by Stephen King.

I nearly stopped when he describes (in detail) a murdered girl shitting all over a kitchen floor. Then I finally did stop when said murderer went back and had sex with the corpse.

Really? I started yesterday on the audiobook of that book, listened it at work again today!
I like it so far, although it is told a bit dull
I heard about the plot, and it reminded me of the graphic novel Girls by the Luna brothers.

 

[Magicmad5511]

My first is Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. I can't properly remember which one but the one with Norse Gods and Thor blowing up an airport.
I didn't actually stop reading but I regretted it. The ending was awful.

The only book I've stopped reading is one I feel I will get a lot of flame for so I'll just put this in place first.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I had been an avid reader of the series but when I got to that book all I got was Death and Camping. I got bored and stopped and I have not got much interest in trying to read it again.

 

[zelda2fanboy]

I later went back and finished them, but the most recent ones to come to mind were Albert Brooks' 2030. It just kept introducing character after character after character while having very little to do with itself. I couldn't connect with anybody really because every plot was advanced about a page and a half per chapter. Also, it was all doom and gloom, envisioning a worst case scenario of every CNN pundit's idea of where the country is headed. It might be right, but it's nothing I haven't heard before.