What is the best book you never finished?

>>9056582
V.

>>9056582

W+P
best one I did finish was Proust

Blood Meridian, too much of a slog and a lot of the descriptions just seemed like he was trying too hard to be edgy

Women and Men

Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar

I'm a tourist to this board but If on a winter's night a traveler... by Italo Calvino

>>9056703
this. just couldn't do it. where'd you stop?

>>9056843
also I just noticed the irony of this post

I rarely don't finish a book once I've started but there was one case and it was Chernyshevsky's "What is to be Done?"

Love in the Time of Cholera. I was in middle school and I found it incredibly boring, but I'm sure I'll appreciate it if I read it now.

A year ago I dropped Oliver Twist, but I don't really know why.

>>9056582
The Sound and the Fury

>>9056582
The Confidence Man
Same shit over and over.

Joseph and His Brothers. With its length it could literally be another Testament

>>9056582
I've been halfway through 100 years of solitude for a year
I think I got meme'd

I've never finished a book

>>9056931
I bought this at a bookstore, reading the back it seemed so cool, and by one of my favorite authors! got home, did some research, gave the book away to a friend. Sounds like a failed experiment or something. I didn't even want to soil my memory of Moby-Dick. I do want to try Bartleby though, but can't talk myself into buying books with less than a hundred pages.

>>9056582
One Hundred Years of Solitude. I just lost track of the characters so I had no idea what was happening (I was on trial at the time and couldn't focus).

>>9056582
ulyssess. I got to page 400ish and it was honestly so boring from page 100 and on. I got the point.

>>9057429
were you on trial for gnostical turpitude?

>>9056939
>>9057429
Yeah this is my half-finished book too. I enjoyed it, I just didn't feel like finishing it

>>9057465
Same, it started well, I just can't imagine any satisfaction at the end

>>9056582
The Magic Mountain

2666. I accidentally left my copy in Cambodia and never found another in Tokyo.

>>9056582
...Finnegans Wake. Currently on my fourth iteration and I don't think I can ever escape this loop. He wasn't joking when he said this would keep critics busy for centuries--except he actually meant forever. I've heard Bloom is on his 96th iteration and there are others who have gone even further. It's impossible to ever finish...

>>9056703
Seven pillars of wisdom, t.e. Lawrence.

First chapter was phenomenal but I'm reading other books

>>9058150
Some former Rouge Khmer insurgent now has a copy of 2666 and must be pretty puzzled about it.

>>9056939
same anon, just can't finish it

>>9056582

According to Zizek: the Phenomenology of Spirit

The Bible

How could I possibly know if I didn't finish it?

The Castle by Kafka.

I keep on putting it down for some reason.

>>9056582
Ulysses

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. Such a fun book but for some explainable reason I put it down and never came back.

GR

>>9059195
*unexplainable

>>9059198
*inexplicable

Labyrinths
For some reason I only read some of the essays and parables at the end

>>9056582
>>Insert Ayn Rand novel here

>>9056582
The Magic Mountain

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>>9056582
about half of them. I hardly ever make the conscious decision to stop reading a book, but then I get new ones and I... just... never finish them. Even books I really like aren't entirely exempt from this. It's probably my ADHD, but I still want to jab a pen into my eye.

2666, Master and Margarita, Blindsight, the 3rd policeman, The Heyerdahl Expedition, The Once and Future King and about 20 non-fiction history books are some that I have my eye on to get back to, but that's only a small portion of all the books I just stopped reading.

Journey to the End of the Night

I was 17/18 and it was too good. Got more than half of it iirc. Been thinking about grabbing it again

I did the exact same thing with Catch 22 1/2 yrs before that

>>9056582
My diary

>>9058150
I stopped reading it at the start of 2015 and came back to it during mid-2016. Completely worth it, try to get your hands on it, anon. It wasn't hard to catch up.

100 Years of Solitude. I loved it but stopped around the point it really gets going.