Theres a few but the titles don't come to mind at the moment sometimes I just loose interest to read certain ones. I'm not a huge reader of novels usually for me has to be a true or fact based story to really hold my interest or a good tech type manual.
I took a English Literature course mainly because I wanted to read things I wouldn't come across by my usual interest.
I did finally finish reading; Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin...eventually. The old fashioned english language was so hard to read.
Great Expectaions By Charles Dickens. This hurt to read. But finally I got to the last page and was really glad as the ending was just as painfull because it was so ambiguous.
Kafka on the Shore By Murakami. Not sure why I never finished this book. I think it was because it seemed like far out fantasy. I must finish it was a 20p bargin from a charity shop.
Frankenstein By Shelly, wow, did not like this from the start, many times it sent me to sleep. Reading it irritated me like an itch you can't reach. I tried and tried so hard to finish the damn book, but just couldn't.
The Rover By Aphra Behn(woman) (play script) It just seemed new and differant to me to read, untill half way through and now it's a favourite of mine. Love it!
Henry V By Shakespeare. wow megga yawns. I just found it really like a man who repeats himself and goes round and round in circles. Just didn't have the will to live to finish it. Groan.
Fathers and Sons By Turgenev. I didn't finish this book. The characters and the story it all seemed like a million decades ago and I found I could not relate to it.
Colour Purple By Alice Walker. I know this was the easiest and most enjoyable to read. Hope you've read it or maybe you will now, I think it will be one you'll finish reading Nicola.
Sorry to go on, Nic, but have you read 'By the River Piedra I sat down and Wept' By Paulo Coelho. That is a good short read.
The only two books I didn't get around to reading on that course was 'As You Like It' and 'Othello' By Shakespeare.
I just finished reading "Hotel Kerobokan" by Kathryn Bonella, which detailed the daily goings-on inside the Balinese prison. It was gruesome and pretty depressing in parts, so I could only manage a couple of chapters at a time. It took me over a week to get through that book.
LOL Nicola, oddly enough when i started reading the book it made me think of Mark Twain's Huck Finn.. only with better english and a little less adventure..
I started reading,"I'll Sleep When I'm Dead", the biography of Warren Zevon, and almost didn't finish it. Why? Because it was clear he was an asshole! Here's a guy that womanized, got married and had a daughter anyway, became an alcoholic who would beat his wife, had numerous affairs, and ignored his daughter. She even made a special trip to see him once and he still ignored her. So many people tried to help him (including Jackson Browne), but he never thanked them. If it wasn't a library book, I would've thrown it in the trash.
Ekhart Tolle's "A New Earth"... I tried very, very hard to get through this. I know it's a book that had a lot of name dropping on the list of "books that changed my life" for a lot of people.
I take what I read very seriously and it IS a great book to provoke thoughts... but you have to be ready for this kind of philosophizing. I did get half-way through it though before I got completely distracted.
I tried to read it last summer, which was a bad idea, because I have a very short attention span in the summer months. I'm too distracted by sunshine and patios.
I do hope to get back into it, because I feel quite guilty that it didn't change my life on the first attempt.
J.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. Shelley's Frankenstein and Stoker's Dracula.
All three of their writing styles put me to sleep before I could finish more than 40 pages.
The same GQP demanding we move on from January 6th, 2021 is still doing audits of the November 3rd, 2020 election.
I'm half way through War and Peace. I haven't touched it in a few months. The reason I haven't finished it yet? I've read 600 pages, and I'm only half way through. But I do plan on finishing it eventually.
Piquet, you should write more humour pieces, you have the knack.
Among book's, I could not get through Foucault's Pendulum, by Umberto Eco. It was just too entangled in mysterious hints and suggestions before getting into the story itself. It lost me, and I tried to read it at least twice, before deciding it wasn't worth the time and effort, and I actually didn't have to read it.
Amazon Odyssey written by Ti-Grace Atkinson, I read about 15 pages, realized she as a man hating psycho and I threw the book in the trash, the only time I ever did that. At the time I was reading books by academic and radical feminists. Don't ask.
The following is funny, fall down laughing funny, funny as hell, but it gives you an idea of why I call her a psycho. When I first read her I was taking her way to seriously.
“The price of clinging to the enemy [a man] is your life. To enter into a relationship with a man who has divested himself as completely and publicly from the male role as much as possible would still be a risk. But to relate to a man who has done any less is suicide. . . . I, personally, have taken the position that I will not appear with any man publicly, where it could possibly be interpreted that we were friends.” (Ti-Grace Atkinson, Amazon Odyssey, Links Books, 1974, pp. 90, 91)
I have always loved reading. But, somehow I had managed to never read the Grapes of Wrath, a classic that most people read in high school. So while on a medically imposed bed rest, many years ago, I began reading this book. It was the most tragic book. I kept hoping that something would go right for this family, maybe something would get better, sadly no. Not to be. They finally arrived in CA, to more despair. My least favorite book of all time. If I had not been forced to stay in bed for weeks on end, I would not even have bothered to finish it.0Py49MAfCkOLimd0
"Ulysses" by James Joyce. I trudged my way through it, but the writing style seemed designed to block the thing from my long-term memory.
I didn't have any problem reading Naked Lunch, but I couldn't read Burrough's Nova Express or the Wild Boys. I enjoyed Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath too, but hated The Red Pony and The Pearl, which we were required to read in high school. It's not really a book, but I couldn't finish reading Kafka's Metamorphosis, it really creeped me out. I tried to read Ulysses but could only make it for about a hundred pages, and haven't been able to read anything by Joyce all the way through.
Bleak House by Dickens, dictionary Size and bleak and dull, Never finished it .
Most of the books by Bret Easton Ellis are tough for me to get through. I find them repetitive and tedious. I do enjoy his stories and characters though, in small portions.
so i put it down then try again usually after a couple of years.. I swear I will finish someday.. other then that one book though there isn't a story that I wouldn't finish once started... 
I did read it when I was fairly young, when I could perhaps identify more with the characters. I might feel totally different about it if I read it again today.
oooh gosh it's just so long and so many I'd rather watch it in the movies than reading each book...
I just borrowed it from a classmate for a year, again laziness attacked. So when she needed to move out from our dormitory, I gave it back to her without finishing it.
