Books You Couldn't Finish

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For whatever reason, good, bad or indifferent, you couldn't finish it. Add your abandoned reads. Thumbs down the ones that should be given a second chance.
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De bliksemdief
door Rick Riordan
30,163 leden
1,221 besprekingen
4.1
2 Members
merrystar, 2wonderY
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merrystar: I'm possibly too old, but I found the beginning of this unreadable.
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Het vreugdevuur der ijdelheden
door Tom Wolfe
8,803 leden
130 besprekingen
3.8
2 Members
merrystar, fuzzi
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fuzzi: Despised the characters, why read about people with no redeeming qualities?
3
The Witches: Salem, 1692
door Stacy Schiff
2,500 leden
65 besprekingen
½ 3.5
2 Members
Bookmarque, ManWithAnAgenda
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Bookmarque: HIGHLY speculative. Repetitive. Repetitive. Repetitive.
4
Een keukenmeidenroman
door Kathryn Stockett
29,845 leden
1,471 besprekingen
½ 4.4
Member
ahef1963
5
Onderweg
door Jack Kerouac
27,432 leden
383 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Member
ahef1963
6
De Reiziger
door Diana Gabaldon
23,091 leden
971 besprekingen
4.2
Member
Minthe
7
De bijzondere kinderen van mevrouw Peregrine
door Ransom Riggs
18,519 leden
1,121 besprekingen
½ 3.7
2 Members
barbharper, ahef1963,
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22-11-1963
door Stephen King
12,988 leden
737 besprekingen
4.2
Member
Minthe
9
Gevangen
door Stephen King
11,363 leden
445 besprekingen
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
10
Zaterdag
door Ian McEwan
10,206 leden
225 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
11
De Zwitserse Robinsons
door Johann David Wyss
8,492 leden
87 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
12
De geschiedenis van de Peloponnesische oorlog
door Thucydides
7,693 leden
57 besprekingen
4
Member
merrystar
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merrystar: the only assigned book I have ever given up on.
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Een geschiedenis van God vierduizend jaar jodendom, christendom en islam
door Karen Armstrong
7,664 leden
88 besprekingen
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
14
Het Malazijnse Rijk
door Steven Erikson
6,646 leden
191 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
15
Een akkefietje
door Mark Haddon
5,713 leden
183 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Member
Bookmarque
16
Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
door John Eldredge
5,623 leden
48 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Member
cej1027
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Een lied van Afrika
door Isak Dinesen
5,129 leden
99 besprekingen
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
18
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
door A. J. Jacobs
4,603 leden
192 besprekingen
3.8
Member
cej1027
19
Salem Falls
door Jodi Picoult
4,305 leden
71 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
20
De monnik
door Matthew Lewis
4,276 leden
93 besprekingen
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
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Het ware verhaal van de Kelly-bende
door Peter Carey
4,162 leden
78 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Member
Minthe
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Oscar en Lucinda
door Peter Carey
4,079 leden
66 besprekingen
3.8
Member
Minthe
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Er is geen daar daar
door Tommy Orange
3,913 leden
182 besprekingen
4
Member
Bookmarque
24
Boneshaker
door Cherie Priest
3,650 leden
217 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
25
Dhalgren
door Samuel R. Delany
3,642 leden
73 besprekingen
3.8
Member
Cecrow
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Cecrow: Couldn't find the story or the point.
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Dood onder geestelijken
door P. D. James
3,615 leden
52 besprekingen
3.8
Member
katie4098
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Ghost world
door Daniel Clowes
3,570 leden
78 besprekingen
3.8
Member
cej1027
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De zee, de zee
door Iris Murdoch
3,494 leden
93 besprekingen
3.9
Member
Bookmarque
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29
Daal neder, engel
door Thomas Wolfe
3,486 leden
50 besprekingen
4
Member
Crypto-Willobie
30
I Will Fear No Evil
door Robert A. Heinlein
3,364 leden
39 besprekingen
½ 3.4
Member
aulsmith
31
Achter gesloten deuren
door B.A. Paris
3,158 leden
252 besprekingen
3.8
Member
Bookmarque
32
Life - autobiografie
door Keith Richards
3,108 leden
137 besprekingen
3.8
Member
Diane-bpcb
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Moon Over Soho
door Ben Aaronovitch
3,095 leden
170 besprekingen
3.9
Member
Minthe
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De handtekeningenman
door Zadie Smith
2,988 leden
41 besprekingen
3.1
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: Scenes too long and choked with detail. Quirky for quirky's sake. Couldn't connect w/main character enough to wade through it all.
35
Centennial
door James A. Michener
2,956 leden
41 besprekingen
4.1
Member
merrystar
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merrystar: Enjoyed the first half, but then it bogged down.
36
Sleeping Beauties
door Stephen King
2,926 leden
93 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: Repetitive. Boring.
37
Accordeonmisdaden
door Annie Proulx
2,818 leden
47 besprekingen
½ 3.4
Member
Diane-bpcb
38
De slag om de aarde een saga uit het jaar 3000
door L. Ron Hubbard
2,639 leden
46 besprekingen
½ 3.3
2 Members
dtw42, ManWithAnAgenda,
39
Wee de wolf
door Farley Mowat
2,633 leden
61 besprekingen
4.1
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: Self-aggrandizing asshat. Bad science. Questionable reporting.
40
Berg van de ziel
door Gao Xingjian
2,448 leden
37 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Member
starbox
41
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
door Charles Seife
2,401 leden
50 besprekingen
3.8
Member
skid0612
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Absurdistan
door Gary Shteyngart
2,392 leden
79 besprekingen
½ 3.3
Member
Jullou
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Jullou: I love satire and absurdism, rarely don't finish books. But I just couldn't get through this one.
43
Winter's Bone
door Daniel Woodrell
2,334 leden
128 besprekingen
4
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: I've liked his other books but this one too brutal, nasty and gross
44
Pygmee
door Chuck Palahniuk
2,296 leden
74 besprekingen
2.9
Member
SimoneA
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House
door Frank Peretti
2,235 leden
56 besprekingen
½ 3.4
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: Too stupid. Too manipulative. Dumb characters. Like every cheap horror movie ever.
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De bijbel achterna
door Bruce Feiler
2,134 leden
25 besprekingen
3.9
Member
Diane-bpcb
47
Blonde
door Joyce Carol Oates
2,092 leden
62 besprekingen
4
Member
dara85
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Noem het slaap
door Henry Roth
2,054 leden
39 besprekingen
3.9
Member
Diane-bpcb
49
The Glass Key
door Dashiell Hammett
2,028 leden
45 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: boring. convoluted. stop it with the two name boy already. Death to the two name boy!
50
Het eiland
door Victoria Hislop
1,980 leden
83 besprekingen
3.8
Member
eclecticdodo
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The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
door H. W. Brands
1,871 leden
10 besprekingen
4.1
Member
Diane-bpcb
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Envy
door Sandra Brown
1,743 leden
26 besprekingen
4
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: outdated, 80s vibe to Maris's victimhood, predictable and not well written
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for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf
door Ntozake Shange
1,741 leden
22 besprekingen
4
Member
cej1027
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Jack Maggs
door Peter Carey
1,725 leden
33 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Member
Minthe
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Hidden Empire
door Kevin J. Anderson
1,640 leden
35 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Member
gilroy
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gilroy: How can one sustain a story when you change points of view every two pages? Just horrible writing
56
Beauty
door Sheri S. Tepper
1,593 leden
31 besprekingen
3.8
Member
merrystar
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merrystar: I generally love re-told fairy tales, but I couldn't make it through this one.
57
The Sandcastle Girls
door Chris Bohjalian
1,439 leden
147 besprekingen
3.9
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: Just couldn't stand the brutality. Why do men do this?
58
Gevaarlijke onderstroom
door John Hart
1,424 leden
63 besprekingen
3.8
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: Adam is just too dumb for me to stick with this book.
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Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
door Samuel R. Delany
1,341 leden
22 besprekingen
4
Member
aulsmith
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Lethal
door Sandra Brown
1,208 leden
36 besprekingen
3.9
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: Can't write her way out of a wet paper bag. Why do I keep trying?
61
Lord of the Isles
door David Drake
1,193 leden
15 besprekingen
3.2
Member
gilroy
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gilroy: This came out when the Extended Epic like Wheel of Time was popular. Wheel of Time was bad, this was worse.
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Home safe
door Elizabeth Berg
1,187 leden
68 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: stupid woman, stupid premise - as if it would take a year for the accountant to tell her she had no money.
63
Holy Fire
door Bruce Sterling
1,083 leden
19 besprekingen
½ 3.4
Member
gilroy
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Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
door Kory Stamper
1,037 leden
62 besprekingen
4.1
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: zzzzzzz
65
The Dark Monk
door Oliver Pötzsch
971 leden
37 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Member
hoddybook
66
De vrienden van Eddie Coyle
door George V. Higgins
916 leden
44 besprekingen
4
Member
Bookmarque
67
Bloesems van bloed : roman
door Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
744 leden
14 besprekingen
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
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The Tattooed Girl
door Joyce Carol Oates
736 leden
18 besprekingen
½ 3.3
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: Hateful for hatefulness's sake.
69
The Complete Compleat Enchanter
door L. Sprague de Camp
727 leden
5 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
70
Penpal
door Dathan Auerbach
713 leden
42 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: In my best Colonel Kurtz voice - the writing, the writing.
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Van Mij! [ Mine. Dutch ]
door Robert R. McCammon
688 leden
14 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
72
Stad van dromen
door Beverly Swerling
687 leden
15 besprekingen
3.9
Member
Diane-bpcb
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Diane-bpcb: was this edited?
73
The Death of Jane Lawrence
door Caitlin Starling
602 leden
27 besprekingen
½ 3.3
Member
Bookmarque
74
Usher's Passing
door Robert R. McCammon
598 leden
17 besprekingen
3.8
Member
Bookmarque
75
Mara and Dann
door Doris Lessing
592 leden
22 besprekingen
3.9
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: Too bleak. Dwells on the worst people do to each other. All. The. Time.
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De terugkeer
door C. J. Tudor
592 leden
46 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: an onslaught of cruelty, sadism, viciousness and violence.
77
Met een knipoog
door Marian Keyes
559 leden
12 besprekingen
½ 3.3
Member
Bookmarque
78
Sing Them Home
door Stephanie Kallos
540 leden
25 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Member
dara85
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Medeplichtig
door Nicci French
504 leden
21 besprekingen
½ 3.3
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: Too stupid
80
Het elixer
door Philip Carter
503 leden
18 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Member
Bookmarque
81
Seeker
door William Nicholson
487 leden
15 besprekingen
3.8
Member
gilroy
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Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
door Jennifer Wright
471 leden
55 besprekingen
4
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: Can't stand the tone of this book. Too snide, too judgmental, too flip.
84
The Birthing House
door Christopher Ransom
441 leden
32 besprekingen
2.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
85
Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel
door David Rakoff
438 leden
26 besprekingen
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
86
Surrender, New York: A Novel
door Caleb Carr
426 leden
24 besprekingen
2.9
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: Very info-dumpy. Narrator likes the sound of his own voice. Terrible dialog.
87
Bad Twin
door Gary Troup
410 leden
23 besprekingen
2.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
88
The Dark Labyrinth
door Lawrence Durrell
402 leden
10 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: Too oblique.
89
Last Days
door Brian Evenson
377 leden
21 besprekingen
3.8
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: So terrible I couldn't finish and returned it to Audible. Protagonist is an idiot among idiots.
90
Sea Change
door Robert Goddard
367 leden
2 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Member
Bookmarque
91
Security: A Novel
door Gina Wohlsdorf
343 leden
67 besprekingen
½ 3.4
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: Too stupid to finish.
92
This One is Mine
door Maria Semple
343 leden
32 besprekingen
3.1
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: These assholes deserve each other, but not my time.
93
The Third Hotel
door Laura Van den Berg
330 leden
16 besprekingen
3.2
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: oddly unfocused writing, didn't engage w/protagonist
94
The Arrangement: A Novel
door Sarah Dunn
324 leden
19 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Member
Bookmarque
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The Viking Funeral
door Stephen J. Cannell
307 leden
3 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: Can't remember anything except that there was incorrect forensic detail.
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Little Eve
door Catriona Ward
284 leden
12 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
97
De wreker
door Ridley Pearson
275 leden
3 besprekingen
½ 3.4
Member
Bookmarque
98
The Farfarers: Before the Norse
door Farley Mowat
260 leden
3 besprekingen
3.8
Member
arrwa
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Reality and Dreams
door Muriel Spark
237 leden
10 besprekingen
3.2
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: boring, self-involed, bossy asshole as a "protagonist"
100
The Paris Secret
door Karen Swan
212 leden
25 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: Desperate name dropping by the author. And it's a romance, which by itself isn't awful, but it's a stupid one.