Books that you just could not get through

[simbasa12]

Robert Jordan's Wheel Of Time series. I made it to book 9 after starting 4 years ago, but hit the wall last year. I picked it up again this year and quickly became bored. It's just too much concern over details with not enough action. I find the older I get, the less small talk I care to engage in. I am interested to see what the new author came up with, so I will have to grind it out... eventually.

I am reading his Conan series and it's much less cluttered with detail and has alot more straightforward action. Crom!!!!! It's great!!

RIP Jordan.

 

[B_subgirrl]

Robert Jordan's Wheel Of Time series. I made it to book 9 after starting 4 years ago, but hit the wall last year. I picked it up again this year and quickly became bored. It's just too much concern over details with not enough action. I find the older I get, the less small talk I care to engage in. I am interested to see what the new author came up with, so I will have to grind it out... eventually.

I find this one completely bizarre!! Probably the best fantasy books ever written, as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Lambycake]

The Last of the Mohicans... what a snore fest.

Bleak House... well named that one was.

Robinson Crusoe… ugh. So dreary.

It is all taste. I've read these three within the past year and found each worthwhile. Bleak House Ive read a couple times and it only gets better.

 

[simbasa12]

I find this one completely bizarre!! Probably the best fantasy books ever written, as far as I'm concerned.

I made it to the 9th book, so it was great for me up to that point. I had the impression that he was writing and thinking more from a female perspective, so maybe that's why you think I am crazy...just an opinion.

It certainly has had its brilliant moments.

 

[B_subgirrl]

I made it to the 9th book, so it was great for me up to that point. I had the impression that he was writing and thinking more from a female perspective, so maybe that's why you think I am crazy...just an opinion.

It certainly has had its brilliant moments.

I've always felt his writing was quite feminine as well. Ah well, only 5 more books to go (one not written yet) if you decide to take it up again :biggrin1:

 

[earllogjam]

Henry James? Love him. No problem. But try as I might I could not finish Annie Proulx's The Shipping News. Her short stories, however, are hysterical; ranging from modern tall tale to making the mistake of moving back home to Wyoming only to find you've accidentally rented a 1960's trailer planted next to the bully who beat you up every day after high school until you dropped out. Those little bits of cold wind blasting under the door and through the cracks I can stand -- not The Shipping News.

I read Annie Proulx's short story about a gay cowboys in the New Yorker and had no idea they could stretch that thing out into a 2 hour Brokeback Mountain. When I saw the movie I remembered that short story I read 4 or 5 years and was amazed how the movie captured the spirit of her short story. Her version was a bit more humorous.

 

[SpeedoMike]

The Road Less Travelled

 

[Calboner]

The Road Less Travelled

The book less read?

 

[vince]

Henry James? Love him. No problem. But try as I might I could not finish Annie Proulx's The Shipping News. Her short stories, however, are hysterical; ranging from modern tall tale to making the mistake of moving back home to Wyoming only to find you've accidentally rented a 1960's trailer planted next to the bully who beat you up every day after high school until you dropped out. Those little bits of cold wind blasting under the door and through the cracks I can stand -- not The Shipping News.

I really enjoyed The Shipping News as a read and the movie was great. Maybe it's a Canadian thing...

 

[midlifebear]

I really enjoyed The Shipping News as a read and the movie was great. Maybe it's a Canadian thing...

A close friend with similar reading interests as mine gave me a hardcover signed first edition. I can't really put my finger on why I disliked The Shipping News so much. Possibly the (to me) lack luster main character. I certainly like north east Canada.

I also had the same reaction to The English Patient -- and an even worse reaction to it's rendition as a film.

But as for Annie Proulx's short fiction, currently there are two great collections of her short stories about the delicious evils and good times that lie beneath the desperate lives of folks keeping cattle ranches viable in Wyoming. The word hoot comes to mind, as in "They are a . . . ."