I Can't Finish This Book

ahef1963: I didn't think I could handle the outcome of having a hungry lion on board, so I quit reading.

ahef1963: I've tried multiple times, but I cannot get through it.

aulsmith: It reads more like notes than a novel. I don't think I got past page 20.

merrystar : I like parts of this much better than others, but I did finish it.

ahef1963: I was given a lovely edition of this book by my mother when I was a teenager, but it is more shelf ornament than book I have read.

aulsmith : I loved the wacky journey, but I was pre-feminist then. Don't know if I'd get through it now.

ahef1963: Found the sexism in it too trying to keep reading it.

ahef1963: I want to complete it, as it's my daughter's favourite novel, but it puts me to sleep.

aulsmith : I liked this one.

ahef1963: I keep losing track of who's who, and give up.

aulsmith : I saw it more as how people deal with catastrophes.

ahef1963: It's a rather disgusting story. Plagues, examined closely, are really distasteful.

aulsmith : I was forced to finish it, but it doesn't get any better. I've now read enough related things that I might understand more, but the memory of being lost in all that darkness makes me not pick it up again.

ahef1963: Rather than not finishing, I barely began. I got lost so quickly.

ahef1963: Extremely off-putting.

ahef1963: Got lost in all the seafaring language. I don't know port from starboard!

aulsmith : I thought Kipling gave us a character who was truly multi-cultural and who showed us the good and bad in the cultures he was surrounded with.

ahef1963: Even looked at as a period piece, the racism of this work made it an impossible read for me.

aulsmith: I read the first chapter and found the stuff they borrowed for Star Trek II. I had a friend who wrote three university papers having only read the first chapter.

merrystar : list duplicate

ahef1963: Have never read past the first chapter or so, despite several attempts.

PoetVictoria: I liked the idea of the book, but the book itself was relentless and repetitive. I am glad I read some of it, though. Interesting real life stuff.

aulsmith: I loved the historical parts, but the modern parts left me cold.

ManWithAnAgenda : It wasn't very good, but I finished it.