Are there any books that you started and never finished? Why?; What about books that you started and finished a great while later?
I started A Journey to the Center of the Earth in 1981 and made it to Chapter 30 (Terrific Saurian Combat) and stopped. It was a combination of Verne's writing style and the "you've gotta be kidding" quotient. For years, I thought "I'm gonna read this thing," but never did. Finally, in 2009, I read it. I'm glad I did.
After college, I realized I had exposure to most of the major writers I'd always heard about, except one. So I embarked on a quest to become familiar with the one writer no one talked about. I read some of his short works, then started on one of his most infamous novels.
Shortly into the work, it was as if the author became bored with writing the book--it became nothing more than a list of sexual atrocities. He didn't show interest in finishing it, so why should I?
I never finished The 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis DeSade.
And I never will.
I started A Journey to the Center of the Earth in 1981 and made it to Chapter 30 (Terrific Saurian Combat) and stopped. It was a combination of Verne's writing style and the "you've gotta be kidding" quotient. For years, I thought "I'm gonna read this thing," but never did. Finally, in 2009, I read it. I'm glad I did.
After college, I realized I had exposure to most of the major writers I'd always heard about, except one. So I embarked on a quest to become familiar with the one writer no one talked about. I read some of his short works, then started on one of his most infamous novels.
Shortly into the work, it was as if the author became bored with writing the book--it became nothing more than a list of sexual atrocities. He didn't show interest in finishing it, so why should I?
I never finished The 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis DeSade.
And I never will.
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