Sometimes you start a book and you find it a real struggle to get through and consequently never finish it. Sometimes it's because the book doesn't live up to your expectations and sometimes the problem is not with the book itself but your mental state at the time of reading it just doesn't make it conducive to read that particular book at that particular time.
Which books have you failed or struggled to finish and why? Do you intend to go back to them?
My list is:
1. "The Idiot" : Dostoyevsky : I think you have to be very committed to tackle this book and if your mind's not there you've got no chance.
2. "Under the Volcano" : Malcolm Lowry : Depressing subject matter so not a good book to go to when you're not feeling too great yourself which strangely is when I always seem to return to it. Am determined to get there in the end. It apparently took ten years to write so quite appropriate that it's taken me about five years to try and finish and I'm still not there. Haven't tackled it for over a year.
3. "Silence" : Shusaku Endo : Athough a relatively short book, still struggling through it. Not sure if it's the book or just me but I discovered my sister in law failed to finish it too.
Which books have you failed or struggled to finish and why? Do you intend to go back to them?
My list is:
1. "The Idiot" : Dostoyevsky : I think you have to be very committed to tackle this book and if your mind's not there you've got no chance.
2. "Under the Volcano" : Malcolm Lowry : Depressing subject matter so not a good book to go to when you're not feeling too great yourself which strangely is when I always seem to return to it. Am determined to get there in the end. It apparently took ten years to write so quite appropriate that it's taken me about five years to try and finish and I'm still not there. Haven't tackled it for over a year.
3. "Silence" : Shusaku Endo : Athough a relatively short book, still struggling through it. Not sure if it's the book or just me but I discovered my sister in law failed to finish it too.
