Malazan: Book of the Fallen.
Having no idea what’s going on and not really even being able to comprehend what I’m reading should not be a ‘feature’ of a fiction book.
Exactly the same here! I did quit after the first book, though. I still have no idea what the hell did I read.
I know exactly what you mean. It suffers from the very worst fantasy tropes of meaningless words. I did not finish.
The Robert Jordan Wheel of Time books. By book 7 I hated the main characters and really hated the writing style. The repetition. The repetition. The repetition…
The Sanderson books were ok, but they couldn’t rescue the series and I got no joy from finishing it. A lot of relief though to be done with it.
Agreed on the wheel of time. Every character has one and just one quirk and they repeat it in every occasion. Also it’s quite troubling, once you start thinking on it, this fixation on men/women relationship.
Some of the latter books in the Dark Tower series, can’t remember which one exactly. It was becoming way too long and repetitive and sometimes just weird and not in the good way.
Fahrenheit 451 but I wanted to put it down because of the bad translation. I switched to reading it in English and everything went smoothly after that.
The Bible was a difficult read for me. I pushed through just because I wanted to have at least read it when using it’s words to contradict Supply-Side Christians.
The Count of Monte Cristo. I did like it, but I expect the abridged version would have been better for me. There were parts that were a struggle to get through. It just seems like the unabridged version is more recommended, so I felt compelled to get through it
There’s a reason behind it. When it was first published, it was serialised, so Dumas had an incentive to drag it along, also it romanticizes travels around Europe because it was fancy at the time.
The plot behind it is still one of the most compelling I have ever read and a revenge story that few modern works of art can match.
Boys from Biloxi by John Grisham.
I found the first part (the boys) very boring, and unnecessarily detailed. I could have skipped it without consequence. But the rest of the book was pretty good and enjoyable.
Moby dick ( complete unabridged edition).
The parts where they go into detail about whale hunting was like reading a manual, I did not know there where other editions and just got the frost one I saw. Maybe it was my part for not investigating before.
Gunslinger, first part of The Dark Tower series - The style just wasn’t for me. I finished the series though, 100% best series I’ll ever read.
It’s a marmite book…
Fucking “IT” by Stephen King. That book started so good, but it’s about 400 pages longer than it needed to be and the child orgy at the end really didn’t help me cross the finish line. That book became a chore to get through.
The Game of Thrones books. They all blur into one miserable slog. I disliked it so much that I’ve avoided the TV show (please don’t tell me how good it is, I’ve survived this long with out seeing it and I’ll continue to).
I couldn’t finish the last one that came out. I barely got through the first few chapters. I was sad about it though, because I enjoyed them up until then.
The biggest problem I have with the books is that the overall reaching plot literally has gotten nowhere. It’s never going to get anywhere. And at this point, I could care less what any of the characters eat ever again.
Oh, and the TV series was a joke in terms of plot. Didn’t finish that either, but we can’t be missing much of anything.
