I Can't Finish This Book

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.

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

aulsmith: I never thought of this a book to finish, more like an anthology to sample from as the mood takes you.

aulsmith: I don't think I got past the first page.

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

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

aulsmith: I tried 5 times and always got bogged down in the side stories.

aulsmith: Fell asleep during the opening about insomnia and never picked it up again.

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

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

: I love this book!