Bookish Questions – A Book You Didn’t Finish?
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Disappointing, overrated, just not good: what book did you feel you were supposed to like but didn’t? Do you remember the last book you put down without finishing?
The last book I started and didn’t finish was a book about the life of Mary Shelly. The Monsters : Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein by Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler was an interesting book, but one that I would need in much smaller bites than reading the whole book at once. I do eventually hope to finish the biography, but it will probably still be a while before I touch it again.
What about you? What was the last book you didn’t finish?
I remember as a kid, it was almost impossible for me to leave a book unfinished. The first one I bailed on was “The Green Ginger Jar”, when I was about 11. I had read an extract in my Language Arts book that seemed nice, so I got it from the library and discovered most of it was very “violent” (okay, for the time and place). I took it back to the library unfinished and felt guilty about it for a couple of years!
Recently, I bailed on George Eliot’s “Adam Bede.” The plot was so predictable (turns out I was right) that from Hetty’s first appearance I knew just what was going to happen. Eliot didn’t seem to like any of her characters much, and since it was written in the days when any novel had to run to three volumes, the action was sloooow. I had read well over 200 pages and only 2 days had passed–and not much went on during those two days, really. I really didn’t feel like trudging any farther to a foregone conclusion.