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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Percy Jackson, Tome 1 : Le Voleur de foudre
de Rick Riordan
31,976 membres
1,252 critiques
4.1
2 Members
merrystar, 2wonderY
Explications
merrystar: I'm possibly too old, but I found the beginning of this unreadable.
2
Le bûcher des vanités
de Tom Wolfe
8,976 membres
132 critiques
3.8
2 Members
merrystar, fuzzi
Explications
fuzzi: Despised the characters, why read about people with no redeeming qualities?
3
The Witches: Salem, 1692
de Stacy Schiff
2,670 membres
69 critiques
½ 3.5
2 Members
Bookmarque, ManWithAnAgenda
Explications
Bookmarque: HIGHLY speculative. Repetitive. Repetitive. Repetitive.
4
La couleur des sentiments
de Kathryn Stockett
30,671 membres
1,491 critiques
½ 4.4
Member
ahef1963
5
Sur la route
de Jack Kerouac
28,004 membres
387 critiques
½ 3.6
Member
ahef1963
6
Le chardon et le tartan
de Diana Gabaldon
23,913 membres
989 critiques
4.2
Member
Minthe
7
Miss Peregrine et les enfants particuliers
de Ransom Riggs
19,428 membres
1,136 critiques
½ 3.7
2 Members
barbharper, ahef1963,
8
22/11/63
de Stephen King
13,698 membres
767 critiques
4.2
Member
Minthe
9
Under the Dome
de Stephen King
11,723 membres
453 critiques
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
10
Samedi
de Ian McEwan
10,368 membres
226 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
11
Le Robinson suisse
de Johann David Wyss
8,821 membres
90 critiques
½ 3.5
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
12
La Guerre du Péloponnèse
de Thucydides
7,916 membres
59 critiques
4
Member
merrystar
Explications
merrystar: the only assigned book I have ever given up on.
13
Histoire de Dieu
de Karen Armstrong
7,881 membres
91 critiques
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
14
Les jardins de la Lune
de Steven Erikson
6,918 membres
193 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
15
Une situation légèrement délicate
de Mark Haddon
5,764 membres
185 critiques
½ 3.5
Member
Bookmarque
16
Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
de John Eldredge
5,741 membres
48 critiques
½ 3.6
Member
cej1027
17
La ferme africaine
de Isak Dinesen
5,252 membres
99 critiques
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
18
L'année où j'ai vécu selon la Bible
de A. J. Jacobs
4,681 membres
192 critiques
3.8
Member
cej1027
19
Le Moine
de Matthew Lewis
4,407 membres
93 critiques
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
20
Le cercle de Salem
de Jodi Picoult
4,402 membres
72 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
21
There There
de Tommy Orange
4,333 membres
194 critiques
4
Member
Bookmarque
22
Véritable histoire du gang Kelly
de Peter Carey
4,258 membres
79 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
Minthe
23
Oscar and Lucinda
de Peter Carey
4,142 membres
68 critiques
3.8
Member
Minthe
24
Dhalgren
de Samuel R. Delany
3,753 membres
74 critiques
3.8
Member
Cecrow
Explications
Cecrow: Couldn't find the story or the point.
25
Le siècle mécanique t01 : bone shaker
de Cherie Priest
3,717 membres
220 critiques
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
26
Meurtres en soutane
de P. D. James
3,693 membres
55 critiques
3.8
Member
katie4098
27
Ghost world
de Daniel Clowes
3,632 membres
78 critiques
3.8
Member
cej1027
28
La Mer, la mer
de Iris Murdoch
3,583 membres
95 critiques
3.9
Member
Bookmarque
Explications
29
L'Ange exilé : Une histoire de la vie ensevelie
de Thomas Wolfe
3,561 membres
50 critiques
4
Member
Crypto-Willobie
30
Behind Closed Doors
de B.A. Paris
3,484 membres
259 critiques
3.8
Member
Bookmarque
31
I Will Fear No Evil
de Robert A. Heinlein
3,425 membres
40 critiques
½ 3.4
Member
aulsmith
32
Le dernier apprenti sorcier, Tome 2 : Magie noire à Soho
de Ben Aaronovitch
3,258 membres
175 critiques
3.9
Member
Minthe
33
Life
de Keith Richards
3,208 membres
139 critiques
3.9
Member
Diane-bpcb
34
Sleeping Beauties
de Stephen King
3,130 membres
99 critiques
½ 3.6
Member
Bookmarque
Explications
Bookmarque: Repetitive. Boring.
35
L'homme à l'autographe
de Zadie Smith
3,038 membres
41 critiques
3.1
Member
Bookmarque
Explications
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
Colorado saga
de James A. Michener
3,010 membres
43 critiques
4.1
Member
merrystar
Explications
merrystar: Enjoyed the first half, but then it bogged down.
37
Les Crimes de l'accordéon
de Annie Proulx
2,860 membres
47 critiques
½ 3.4
Member
Diane-bpcb
38
Mes amis les loups
de Farley Mowat
2,723 membres
63 critiques
4.1
Member
Bookmarque
Explications
Bookmarque: Self-aggrandizing asshat. Bad science. Questionable reporting.
39
Les derniers hommes
de L. Ron Hubbard
2,705 membres
47 critiques
½ 3.3
2 Members
dtw42, ManWithAnAgenda,
40
La Montagne de l'âme
de Gao Xingjian
2,526 membres
41 critiques
½ 3.5
Member
starbox
41
Zéro, la biographie d'une idée dangereuse
de Charles Seife
2,462 membres
50 critiques
3.8
Member
skid0612
42
Absurdistan
de Gary Shteyngart
2,424 membres
79 critiques
½ 3.3
Member
Jullou
Explications
Jullou: I love satire and absurdism, rarely don't finish books. But I just couldn't get through this one.
43
Un hiver de glace
de Daniel Woodrell
2,383 membres
129 critiques
4
Member
Bookmarque
Explications
Bookmarque: I've liked his other books but this one too brutal, nasty and gross
44
Pygmy
de Chuck Palahniuk
2,354 membres
74 critiques
2.9
Member
SimoneA
45
House
de Frank Peretti
2,308 membres
56 critiques
½ 3.4
Member
Bookmarque
Explications
Bookmarque: Too stupid. Too manipulative. Dumb characters. Like every cheap horror movie ever.
46
Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses
de Bruce Feiler
2,178 membres
25 critiques
3.9
Member
Diane-bpcb
47
Blonde
de Joyce Carol Oates
2,148 membres
63 critiques
4
Member
dara85
48
Call It Sleep
de Henry Roth
2,108 membres
40 critiques
3.9
Member
Diane-bpcb
49
La Clé de verre
de Dashiell Hammett
2,068 membres
45 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
Explications
Bookmarque: boring. convoluted. stop it with the two name boy already. Death to the two name boy!
50
L'île des oubliés
de Victoria Hislop
2,029 membres
84 critiques
3.8
Member
eclecticdodo
51
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
de H. W. Brands
1,912 membres
11 critiques
4.1
Member
Diane-bpcb
52
for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf
de Ntozake Shange
1,798 membres
23 critiques
4
Member
cej1027
53
Jaloux
de Sandra Brown
1,797 membres
28 critiques
4
Member
Bookmarque
Explications
Bookmarque: outdated, 80s vibe to Maris's victimhood, predictable and not well written
54
Jack Maggs
de Peter Carey
1,758 membres
33 critiques
½ 3.6
Member
Minthe
55
L'Empire caché
de Kevin J. Anderson
1,683 membres
35 critiques
½ 3.5
Member
gilroy
Explications
gilroy: How can one sustain a story when you change points of view every two pages? Just horrible writing
56
Beauty
de Sheri S. Tepper
1,621 membres
31 critiques
3.8
Member
merrystar
Explications
merrystar: I generally love re-told fairy tales, but I couldn't make it through this one.
57
The Sandcastle Girls
de Chris Bohjalian
1,472 membres
151 critiques
3.9
Member
Bookmarque
Explications
Bookmarque: Just couldn't stand the brutality. Why do men do this?
58
La Rivière rouge
de John Hart
1,448 membres
63 critiques
3.8
Member
Bookmarque
Explications
Bookmarque: Adam is just too dumb for me to stick with this book.
59
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
de Samuel R. Delany
1,384 membres
22 critiques
4
Member
aulsmith
60
Lethal
de Sandra Brown
1,265 membres
38 critiques
3.9
Member
Bookmarque
Explications
Bookmarque: Can't write her way out of a wet paper bag. Why do I keep trying?
61
Le Seigneur des Isles: Le Seigneur des Isles, T1
de David Drake
1,222 membres
15 critiques
3.2
Member
gilroy
Explications
gilroy: This came out when the Extended Epic like Wheel of Time was popular. Wheel of Time was bad, this was worse.
62
Home Safe
de Elizabeth Berg
1,214 membres
70 critiques
½ 3.5
Member
Bookmarque
Explications
Bookmarque: stupid woman, stupid premise - as if it would take a year for the accountant to tell her she had no money.
63
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
de Kory Stamper
1,095 membres
64 critiques
4.2
Member
Bookmarque
Explications
Bookmarque: zzzzzzz
64
Le Feu sacré
de Bruce Sterling
1,095 membres
21 critiques
½ 3.4
Member
gilroy
65
The Dark Monk
de Oliver Pötzsch
1,002 membres
40 critiques
½ 3.6
Member
hoddybook
66
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
de George V. Higgins
943 membres
44 critiques
4
Member
Bookmarque
67
Penpal
de Dathan Auerbach
818 membres
46 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
Explications
Bookmarque: In my best Colonel Kurtz voice - the writing, the writing.
68
Petals of Blood
de Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
761 membres
14 critiques
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
69
The Complete Compleat Enchanter
de L. Sprague de Camp
744 membres
5 critiques
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
70
La Fille tatouée
de Joyce Carol Oates
743 membres
18 critiques
½ 3.3
Member
Bookmarque
Explications
Bookmarque: Hateful for hatefulness's sake.
71
Mine
de Robert R. McCammon
723 membres
16 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
72
City of Dreams: A Novel of Nieuw Amsterdam and Early Manhattan
de Beverly Swerling
698 membres
15 critiques
3.9
Member
Diane-bpcb
Explications
Diane-bpcb: was this edited?
73
The Death of Jane Lawrence
de Caitlin Starling
681 membres
29 critiques
3.2
Member
Bookmarque
74
The Hiding Place
de C. J. Tudor
647 membres
48 critiques
½ 3.6
Member
Bookmarque
Explications
Bookmarque: an onslaught of cruelty, sadism, viciousness and violence.
75
Usher's Passing
de Robert R. McCammon
628 membres
18 critiques
3.8
Member
Bookmarque
76
Mara et Dann
de Doris Lessing
604 membres
22 critiques
3.9
Member
Bookmarque
Explications
Bookmarque: Too bleak. Dwells on the worst people do to each other. All. The. Time.
77
The Woman Who Stole My Life
de Marian Keyes
580 membres
13 critiques
½ 3.4
Member
Bookmarque
78
Sing Them Home
de Stephanie Kallos
548 membres
25 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
dara85
79
Le secret des glaces
de Philip Carter
523 membres
19 critiques
½ 3.5
Member
Bookmarque
80
Complicit
de Nicci French
510 membres
22 critiques
½ 3.3
Member
Bookmarque
Explications
Bookmarque: Too stupid
81
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
de Jennifer Wright
503 membres
61 critiques
4
Member
Bookmarque
Explications
Bookmarque: Can't stand the tone of this book. Too snide, too judgmental, too flip.
82
Seeker
de William Nicholson
499 membres
15 critiques
3.8
Member
gilroy
84
The Birthing House
de Christopher Ransom
455 membres
32 critiques
2.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
85
Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel
de David Rakoff
453 membres
26 critiques
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
86
Surrender, New York: A Novel
de Caleb Carr
451 membres
27 critiques
2.9
Member
Bookmarque
Explications
Bookmarque: Very info-dumpy. Narrator likes the sound of his own voice. Terrible dialog.
87
Last Days
de Brian Evenson
418 membres
25 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
Explications
Bookmarque: So terrible I couldn't finish and returned it to Audible. Protagonist is an idiot among idiots.
88
Bad Twin
de Gary Troup
413 membres
22 critiques
2.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
89
Cefalu
de Lawrence Durrell
407 membres
10 critiques
½ 3.6
Member
Bookmarque
Explications
Bookmarque: Too oblique.
90
Sea Change
de Robert Goddard
370 membres
2 critiques
½ 3.5
Member
Bookmarque
91
This One is Mine
de Maria Semple
356 membres
34 critiques
3.1
Member
Bookmarque
Explications
Bookmarque: These assholes deserve each other, but not my time.
92
Little Eve
de Catriona Ward
353 membres
12 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
93
Security: A Novel
de Gina Wohlsdorf
348 membres
67 critiques
½ 3.4
Member
Bookmarque
Explications
Bookmarque: Too stupid to finish.
94
The Third Hotel
de Laura Van den Berg
338 membres
17 critiques
3.2
Member
Bookmarque
Explications
Bookmarque: oddly unfocused writing, didn't engage w/protagonist
95
The Arrangement: A Novel
de Sarah Dunn
336 membres
20 critiques
½ 3.6
Member
Bookmarque
96
The Viking Funeral
de Stephen J. Cannell
314 membres
6 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
Explications
Bookmarque: Can't remember anything except that there was incorrect forensic detail.
97
Probable Cause
de Ridley Pearson
281 membres
3 critiques
½ 3.4
Member
Bookmarque
98
The Farfarers : Before the Norse
de Farley Mowat
271 membres
4 critiques
3.8
Member
arrwa
99
Reality and Dreams
de Muriel Spark
246 membres
10 critiques
3.1
Member
Bookmarque
Explications
Bookmarque: boring, self-involed, bossy asshole as a "protagonist"
100
The Paris Secret
de Karen Swan
226 membres
27 critiques
½ 3.5
Member
Bookmarque
Explications
Bookmarque: Desperate name dropping by the author. And it's a romance, which by itself isn't awful, but it's a stupid one.