/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.747212]

ITT: Books that you stopped reading halfway through.

Pic very related.

[Anonymous No.747220]

>>747212
Good choice.

[Anonymous No.747228]

The Fountainhead.

I like it, it was a good book, but

HOLY SHIT HOW MUCH LONGER COULD IT POSSIBLY BE

[Anonymous No.747230]

The Graveyard Book.
I asked for American Gods for Christmas and that was all they had left of Neil Gaiman... ;_;

[Anonymous No.747232]

i stopped reading the Stephen King's It a few chapters until the end, where the kids started gang banging the chick in the sewers. I was like "wtf am I reading", i think i stopped after stephen king let it be known the Ben had the biggest dick.

the rest of the book was fucking awesome though, especially the part where the retarded baby killer guy tries to rub dicks with the bully guy.

[Anonymous No.747234]

ITT: books that I brought on a camping trip where it rained the whole time and I had nothing else to do so I read them ten times back to back.

OP pic related. I also had The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, though, so there was some variety.

[Anonymous No.747248]

Stopped a third into The Gunslinger. Just started reading again. King is one badass motherfucker.

[Anonymous No.747251]

atlas shrugged

[Anonymous No.747258]

100 years of solitude

[Anonymous No.747290]

The Fellowship of The Ring...

Decided to commit to Frank Herbert's Dune series instead.

[Anonymous No.747304]

If I get halfway through a book I'm going to finish it. If I'm going to stop, I'll do it within the first 50 pages.

[Anonymous No.747307]

A heartbreaking work of staggering genius

[Anonymous No.747320]

For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Qur'an

[Anonymous No.747336]

Duma Key by Stephen King

It got too boring

[Anonymous No.747339]

the penis was

[Anonymous No.747343]

>>747339
how could you that book is only like a page long

[Anonymous No.747364]

IT by Stephen King.
Total mindfuck...

[Anonymous No.747367]

cryptonomicon

[Anonymous No.747376]

I'm about a hundred pages from the end, but the translation is at times unbearable, and unlike the first one, the plot doesn't provide a kick, which is why I can't stand the fucking cliched writing of the translator.

[Anonymous No.747383]

[Anonymous No.747391]

The Brother's Karamazov

NOW DON'T GET MAD. It was between semesters during Christmas break, i stopped right in the middle after Dmitry is arrested. I went back and finished it over spring break. Simply had too much other reading during the courses.

[Anonymous No.747401]

>>747258
the beginning was rough to get through and get used to. Took me awhile but finally finished. it was worth it, for the Colonel Aureliano Buendia alone. he will always be one the most badass literary characters ever. Ever!

[Anonymous No.747416]

Walden or life in the woods.
Booooooriiiiiiiiiing....

[Derp De Doo !7Q1qJNYWx. No.747433]

Scanner Darkley, I like it and I like Phillip K. but I cant seem to find the time to get into the book since I saw the movie and I kinda know how its going to end.

[Anonymous No.747441]

FrankensteiZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZz

[Anonymous No.747449]

solaris. translation sucked

[Anonymous No.747450]

>>747232
Haha, the dedication:

"This book is gratefully dedicated to my children. My mother and my wife taught me how to be a man. My children taught me how to be free."

[Anonymous No.747655]

The Child Thief. Only book I've stopped halfway through.

Great idea (a darker Peter Pan? I'm in), terrible execution (Caliburn and Avalon? In Peter Pan? Fuck this, I'm out). Damn you, Brom - go focus on your art.

Seriously, though, I'm normally not very picky about books, and I thought this shit was terrible.