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
31,626 leden
1,245 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
8,938 leden
132 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
2,636 leden
68 besprekingen
½ 3.5
2 Members
Bookmarque, ManWithAnAgenda
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Bookmarque: HIGHLY speculative. Repetitive. Repetitive. Repetitive.
4
Een keukenmeidenroman
door Kathryn Stockett
30,509 leden
1,488 besprekingen
½ 4.4
Member
ahef1963
5
Onderweg
door Jack Kerouac
27,925 leden
386 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Member
ahef1963
6
De Reiziger
door Diana Gabaldon
23,762 leden
985 besprekingen
4.2
Member
Minthe
7
De bijzondere kinderen van mevrouw Peregrine
door Ransom Riggs
19,261 leden
1,134 besprekingen
½ 3.7
2 Members
barbharper, ahef1963,
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22-11-1963
door Stephen King
13,558 leden
761 besprekingen
4.2
Member
Minthe
9
Gevangen
door Stephen King
11,637 leden
452 besprekingen
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
10
Zaterdag
door Ian McEwan
10,338 leden
226 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
11
De Zwitserse Robinsons
door Johann David Wyss
8,755 leden
90 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
12
De geschiedenis van de Peloponnesische oorlog
door Thucydides
7,869 leden
59 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
7,838 leden
91 besprekingen
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
14
Het Malazijnse Rijk
door Steven Erikson
6,882 leden
192 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
15
Een akkefietje
door Mark Haddon
5,760 leden
185 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Member
Bookmarque
16
Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
door John Eldredge
5,719 leden
48 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Member
cej1027
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Een lied van Afrika
door Isak Dinesen
5,221 leden
98 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
4,671 leden
192 besprekingen
3.8
Member
cej1027
19
De monnik
door Matthew Lewis
4,378 leden
92 besprekingen
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
20
Salem Falls
door Jodi Picoult
4,375 leden
72 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
21
Er is geen daar daar
door Tommy Orange
4,264 leden
192 besprekingen
4
Member
Bookmarque
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Het ware verhaal van de Kelly-bende
door Peter Carey
4,235 leden
79 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Member
Minthe
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Oscar en Lucinda
door Peter Carey
4,123 leden
68 besprekingen
3.8
Member
Minthe
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Dhalgren
door Samuel R. Delany
3,730 leden
74 besprekingen
3.8
Member
Cecrow
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Cecrow: Couldn't find the story or the point.
25
Boneshaker
door Cherie Priest
3,703 leden
218 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
26
Dood onder geestelijken
door P. D. James
3,672 leden
55 besprekingen
3.8
Member
katie4098
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Ghost world
door Daniel Clowes
3,609 leden
78 besprekingen
3.8
Member
cej1027
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De zee, de zee
door Iris Murdoch
3,581 leden
94 besprekingen
3.9
Member
Bookmarque
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29
Daal neder, engel
door Thomas Wolfe
3,549 leden
50 besprekingen
4
Member
Crypto-Willobie
30
Achter gesloten deuren
door B.A. Paris
3,434 leden
257 besprekingen
3.8
Member
Bookmarque
31
I Will Fear No Evil
door Robert A. Heinlein
3,416 leden
40 besprekingen
½ 3.4
Member
aulsmith
32
Moon Over Soho
door Ben Aaronovitch
3,236 leden
175 besprekingen
3.9
Member
Minthe
33
Life - autobiografie
door Keith Richards
3,201 leden
138 besprekingen
3.9
Member
Diane-bpcb
34
Sleeping Beauties
door Stephen King
3,092 leden
98 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: Repetitive. Boring.
35
De handtekeningenman
door Zadie Smith
3,026 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.
36
Centennial
door James A. Michener
3,006 leden
43 besprekingen
4.1
Member
merrystar
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merrystar: Enjoyed the first half, but then it bogged down.
37
Accordeonmisdaden
door Annie Proulx
2,862 leden
47 besprekingen
½ 3.4
Member
Diane-bpcb
38
Wee de wolf
door Farley Mowat
2,708 leden
63 besprekingen
4.1
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: Self-aggrandizing asshat. Bad science. Questionable reporting.
39
De slag om de aarde een saga uit het jaar 3000
door L. Ron Hubbard
2,694 leden
47 besprekingen
½ 3.3
2 Members
dtw42, ManWithAnAgenda,
40
Berg van de ziel
door Gao Xingjian
2,515 leden
41 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Member
starbox
41
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
door Charles Seife
2,458 leden
50 besprekingen
3.8
Member
skid0612
42
Absurdistan
door Gary Shteyngart
2,421 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
2,378 leden
129 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
2,344 leden
74 besprekingen
2.9
Member
SimoneA
45
House
door Frank Peretti
2,289 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.
46
De bijbel achterna
door Bruce Feiler
2,168 leden
25 besprekingen
3.9
Member
Diane-bpcb
47
Blonde
door Joyce Carol Oates
2,146 leden
62 besprekingen
4
Member
dara85
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Noem het slaap
door Henry Roth
2,102 leden
40 besprekingen
3.9
Member
Diane-bpcb
49
The Glass Key
door Dashiell Hammett
2,060 leden
44 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
2,021 leden
84 besprekingen
3.8
Member
eclecticdodo
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The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
door H. W. Brands
1,911 leden
11 besprekingen
4.1
Member
Diane-bpcb
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for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf
door Ntozake Shange
1,792 leden
23 besprekingen
4
Member
cej1027
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Envy
door Sandra Brown
1,781 leden
28 besprekingen
4
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: outdated, 80s vibe to Maris's victimhood, predictable and not well written
54
Jack Maggs
door Peter Carey
1,753 leden
33 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Member
Minthe
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Hidden Empire
door Kevin J. Anderson
1,680 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
1,612 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
1,468 leden
149 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
1,439 leden
63 besprekingen
3.8
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: Adam is just too dumb for me to stick with this book.
59
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
door Samuel R. Delany
1,374 leden
22 besprekingen
3.9
Member
aulsmith
60
Lethal
door Sandra Brown
1,250 leden
38 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
1,218 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
1,208 leden
70 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
1,092 leden
21 besprekingen
½ 3.4
Member
gilroy
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Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
door Kory Stamper
1,083 leden
64 besprekingen
4.2
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: zzzzzzz
65
The Dark Monk
door Oliver Pötzsch
995 leden
40 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Member
hoddybook
66
De vrienden van Eddie Coyle
door George V. Higgins
944 leden
44 besprekingen
4
Member
Bookmarque
67
Penpal
door Dathan Auerbach
796 leden
46 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: In my best Colonel Kurtz voice - the writing, the writing.
68
Bloesems van bloed : roman
door Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
760 leden
14 besprekingen
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
69
The Tattooed Girl
door Joyce Carol Oates
743 leden
18 besprekingen
½ 3.3
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: Hateful for hatefulness's sake.
70
The Complete Compleat Enchanter
door L. Sprague de Camp
733 leden
5 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
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Van Mij! [ Mine. Dutch ]
door Robert R. McCammon
715 leden
16 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
72
Stad van dromen
door Beverly Swerling
697 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
665 leden
29 besprekingen
3.2
Member
Bookmarque
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De terugkeer
door C. J. Tudor
640 leden
48 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: an onslaught of cruelty, sadism, viciousness and violence.
75
Usher's Passing
door Robert R. McCammon
624 leden
18 besprekingen
3.8
Member
Bookmarque
76
Mara and Dann
door Doris Lessing
601 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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Met een knipoog
door Marian Keyes
580 leden
13 besprekingen
½ 3.4
Member
Bookmarque
78
Sing Them Home
door Stephanie Kallos
545 leden
25 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Member
dara85
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Het elixer
door Philip Carter
520 leden
19 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Member
Bookmarque
80
Medeplichtig
door Nicci French
509 leden
22 besprekingen
½ 3.3
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: Too stupid
81
Seeker
door William Nicholson
499 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
496 leden
61 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
452 leden
32 besprekingen
2.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
85
Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel
door David Rakoff
451 leden
26 besprekingen
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
86
Surrender, New York: A Novel
door Caleb Carr
446 leden
27 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
22 besprekingen
2.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
88
Last Days
door Brian Evenson
405 leden
24 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: So terrible I couldn't finish and returned it to Audible. Protagonist is an idiot among idiots.
89
The Dark Labyrinth
door Lawrence Durrell
405 leden
10 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: Too oblique.
90
Sea Change
door Robert Goddard
371 leden
2 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Member
Bookmarque
91
This One is Mine
door Maria Semple
350 leden
32 besprekingen
3.1
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: These assholes deserve each other, but not my time.
92
Security: A Novel
door Gina Wohlsdorf
346 leden
67 besprekingen
½ 3.4
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: Too stupid to finish.
93
Little Eve
door Catriona Ward
343 leden
12 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
94
The Third Hotel
door Laura Van den Berg
336 leden
16 besprekingen
3.2
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: oddly unfocused writing, didn't engage w/protagonist
95
The Arrangement: A Novel
door Sarah Dunn
335 leden
20 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Member
Bookmarque
96
The Viking Funeral
door Stephen J. Cannell
312 leden
4 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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De wreker
door Ridley Pearson
280 leden
3 besprekingen
½ 3.4
Member
Bookmarque
98
The Farfarers: Before the Norse
door Farley Mowat
271 leden
4 besprekingen
3.8
Member
arrwa
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Reality and Dreams
door Muriel Spark
245 leden
10 besprekingen
3.1
Member
Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: boring, self-involed, bossy asshole as a "protagonist"
100
The Paris Secret
door Karen Swan
222 leden
26 besprekingen
½ 3.5
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.