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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8,744 medlemmar
90 recensioner
½ 3.5
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Tillagt 2021-11-12, 03:10 PM
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av Ray Bradbury
53,807 medlemmar
994 recensioner
4
Global rankning 177
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Tillagt 2014-07-31, 09:20 PM
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2,689 medlemmar
47 recensioner
½ 3.3
Global rankning 39
Rankning 1
Tillagt 2017-09-21, 07:25 AM
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- dtw42, ManWithAnAgenda,
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av Stacy Schiff
2,628 medlemmar
68 recensioner
½ 3.5
Global rankning 3
Rankning 2
Tillagt 2019-02-08, 08:54 AM
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- Bookmarque, ManWithAnAgenda
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- Bookmarque: HIGHLY speculative. Repetitive. Repetitive. Repetitive.
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452 medlemmar
32 recensioner
2.1
Global rankning 84
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Tillagt 2021-11-12, 03:07 PM
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- ManWithAnAgenda
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96 medlemmar
6 recensioner
3.1
Global rankning 112
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Tillagt 2021-11-12, 03:07 PM
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- ManWithAnAgenda
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455 medlemmar
4 recensioner
3.8
Global rankning 83
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Tillagt 2021-11-12, 03:07 PM
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8
av Amy Lukavics
193 medlemmar
12 recensioner
2.9
Global rankning 104
Rankning 1
Tillagt 2021-11-12, 03:07 PM
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- ManWithAnAgenda
9
6,869 medlemmar
192 recensioner
½ 3.7
Global rankning 14
Rankning 1
Tillagt 2021-11-12, 03:07 PM
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- ManWithAnAgenda
10
av Stephen King
11,714 medlemmar
452 recensioner
3.8
Global rankning 9
Rankning 1
Tillagt 2021-11-12, 03:07 PM
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- ManWithAnAgenda
11
av Thomas Tryon
121 medlemmar
1 recension
3.2
Global rankning 110
Rankning 1
Tillagt 2021-11-12, 03:08 PM
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- ManWithAnAgenda
12
av Isak Dinesen
5,219 medlemmar
98 recensioner
3.9
Global rankning 17
Rankning 1
Tillagt 2021-11-12, 03:08 PM
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- ManWithAnAgenda
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27 medlemmar
1 recension
½ 1.6
Global rankning 125
Rankning 1
Tillagt 2021-11-12, 03:08 PM
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- ManWithAnAgenda
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3,701 medlemmar
217 recensioner
½ 3.6
Global rankning 25
Rankning 1
Tillagt 2021-11-12, 03:08 PM
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- ManWithAnAgenda
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4,374 medlemmar
92 recensioner
3.8
Global rankning 19
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- ManWithAnAgenda
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732 medlemmar
5 recensioner
½ 3.6
Global rankning 70
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Tillagt 2021-11-12, 03:08 PM
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- ManWithAnAgenda
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48 medlemmar
1 recension
½ 3.3
Global rankning 118
Rankning 1
Tillagt 2021-11-12, 03:09 PM
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- ManWithAnAgenda
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95 medlemmar
38 recensioner
3.9
Global rankning 113
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Tillagt 2021-11-12, 03:09 PM
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av Gibby Haynes
35 medlemmar
2 recensioner
½ 2.7
Global rankning 121
Rankning 1
Tillagt 2021-11-12, 03:09 PM
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- ManWithAnAgenda
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761 medlemmar
13 recensioner
3.9
Global rankning 68
Rankning 1
Tillagt 2021-11-12, 03:09 PM
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- ManWithAnAgenda
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av David Rakoff
449 medlemmar
26 recensioner
4
Global rankning 85
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Tillagt 2021-11-12, 03:09 PM
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av Gary Troup
410 medlemmar
22 recensioner
2.8
Global rankning 87
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Tillagt 2021-11-12, 03:10 PM
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- ManWithAnAgenda
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av Sam Riviere
36 medlemmar
2 recensioner
½ 2.3
Global rankning 120
Rankning 1
Tillagt 2021-11-12, 03:10 PM
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- ManWithAnAgenda
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7,831 medlemmar
91 recensioner
3.9
Global rankning 13
Rankning 1
Tillagt 2021-11-12, 03:10 PM
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av Leah Wilson
13 medlemmar
1 recension
2.8
Global rankning 127
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Tillagt 2021-11-12, 03:10 PM
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- ManWithAnAgenda
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194 medlemmar
2 recensioner
½ 3.7
Global rankning 103
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Tillagt 2021-11-12, 03:10 PM
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av Irwin Allen
7 medlemmar
½ 2.5
Global rankning 128
Rankning 1
Tillagt 2021-11-12, 03:10 PM
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- ManWithAnAgenda
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129 medlemmar
2 recensioner
4
Global rankning 109
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Tillagt 2021-11-12, 03:11 PM
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26,958 medlemmar
772 recensioner
3.9
Global rankning 187
Rankning -8
Tillagt 2013-11-26, 07:53 PM
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av Oscar Wilde
39,429 medlemmar
630 recensioner
4
Global rankning 185
Rankning -5
Tillagt 2014-02-24, 02:16 PM
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- eclecticdodo, , ,merrystar ,Crypto-Willobie ,starbox ,ManWithAnAgenda
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34,252 medlemmar
471 recensioner
4.1
Global rankning 183
Rankning -4
Tillagt 2014-01-23, 03:50 PM
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- katie4098,lorax , ,cej1027 ,starbox ,ManWithAnAgenda
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38,415 medlemmar
432 recensioner
3.9
Global rankning 181
Rankning -4
Tillagt 2013-11-26, 07:52 PM
- 2 Members
- Cecrow, ahef1963, ,merrystar ,Crypto-Willobie ,waltzmn ,starbox ,ManWithAnAgenda
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av Emily Brontë
51,897 medlemmar
699 recensioner
3.9
Global rankning 180
Rankning -4
Tillagt 2013-12-08, 06:35 AM
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- Diane-bpcb, ,merrystar ,fuzzi ,starbox ,ManWithAnAgenda
- Förklaringar
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31,682 medlemmar
559 recensioner
4.1
Global rankning 184
Rankning -4
Tillagt 2013-11-27, 08:18 AM
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69,478 medlemmar
1,078 recensioner
3.8
Global rankning 166
Rankning -2
Tillagt 2014-01-23, 03:53 PM
- 3 Members
- katie4098, waltzmn, skid0612,merrystar ,Crypto-Willobie ,cej1027 ,starbox ,ManWithAnAgenda
- Förklaringar
- merrystar : Required reading, or I doubt I'd have even started it.cej1027 : Took three tries and the motivation of a better book if I'd just finish a chapter each day, but I made it through. I still think it's trash though.waltzmn: Modern fiction. Bah. If you're going to assign a book in a literature class (which is the only reason I went near it), at least least let it be a book where you learn something from the unspoken background assumptions. This book is one of the reasons I prefer non-fiction. I freely admit that this is personal taste.
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13,421 medlemmar
248 recensioner
3.9
Global rankning 172
Rankning -2
Tillagt 2014-02-25, 07:37 PM
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- Diane-bpcb,Crypto-Willobie ,starbox ,ManWithAnAgenda
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- Diane-bpcb: Although I loved this book at first, owing to the dockside atmosphere and Proulx's use of hard consonants, I lost interest.
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24,857 medlemmar
471 recensioner
4.2
Global rankning 170
Rankning -2
Tillagt 2014-02-28, 01:41 AM
- 2 Members
- starbox, Diane-bpcb,lorax ,Cecrow ,waltzmn ,ManWithAnAgenda
- Förklaringar
- Cecrow : One of the best animal perspective novels, if not THE best.
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av Jane Austen
38,058 medlemmar
525 recensioner
4.1
Global rankning 169
Rankning -2
Tillagt 2014-01-21, 11:29 PM
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- Diane-bpcb,merrystar ,starbox ,ManWithAnAgenda
- Förklaringar
- Diane-bpcb: have started this many times; never got far into it despite my being a Jane Austen fan.
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av Sam Savage
1,798 medlemmar
120 recensioner
½ 3.4
Global rankning 164
Rankning -1
Tillagt 2013-11-28, 06:34 PM
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- st_bruno,fuzzi ,ManWithAnAgenda
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- fuzzi : Did finish, was a struggle.
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10,590 medlemmar
174 recensioner
3.9
Global rankning 160
Rankning -1
Tillagt 2013-11-27, 07:06 AM
- 2 Members
- aulsmith, ahef1963, ,starbox ,ManWithAnAgenda
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av George Eliot
17,693 medlemmar
330 recensioner
4.2
Global rankning 156
Rankning -1
Tillagt 2014-02-25, 08:29 PM
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- Diane-bpcb,starbox ,ManWithAnAgenda
- Förklaringar
- Diane-bpcb: Too painful for me; reminds me too much of my Protestant roots
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27,854 medlemmar
1,038 recensioner
4.1
Global rankning 155
Rankning -1
Tillagt 2013-11-26, 07:55 PM
- 2 Members
- starbox, ahef1963, , ,ManWithAnAgenda
- Förklaringar
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42,512 medlemmar
1,119 recensioner
½ 4.4
Global rankning 154
Rankning -1
Tillagt 2016-12-31, 09:35 PM
- 2 Members
- lorax, merrystar, ,Cecrow ,ManWithAnAgenda
- Förklaringar
- lorax: I actually finished this one, gave up after Book 2, but there's no one book to determine if you're a fantasy fan. You can dislike this, because of the violence or for any other reason, and still consider yourself a fantasy fan.Cecrow : Any fantasy aficionado read this as a breath of fresh air when it was first published, and the genre has not been the same since.merrystar: Have to disagree with Cecrow; I have always read and enjoyed fantasy, but could not finish this when I tried to read it in the late 1990s.
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1,100 medlemmar
55 recensioner
½ 3.5
Global rankning 150
Rankning 0
Tillagt 2020-10-13, 10:46 AM
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- Bookmarque,ManWithAnAgenda
- Förklaringar
- Bookmarque: It's too twee. Precious. Repetitive. Boring. Preachy.
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av Thomas Tryon
1,134 medlemmar
37 recensioner
½ 3.7
Global rankning 149
Rankning 0
Tillagt 2020-10-13, 10:49 AM
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- Bookmarque,ManWithAnAgenda
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- Bookmarque: Boring. Not scary. Not even eerie. Just dull.
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2,191 medlemmar
40 recensioner
½ 3.7
Global rankning 146
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Tillagt 2017-09-14, 08:03 AM
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- Cecrow,ManWithAnAgenda
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- Cecrow: Not nearly so engaging as Watership Down, I thought.
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2,517 medlemmar
41 recensioner
4.2
Global rankning 144
Rankning 0
Tillagt 2019-02-08, 08:44 AM
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- Bookmarque,ManWithAnAgenda
- Förklaringar
- Bookmarque: An orgy of misogyny.
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5,707 medlemmar
71 recensioner
3.9
Global rankning 139
Rankning 0
Tillagt 2017-09-14, 08:03 AM
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- Cecrow,ManWithAnAgenda
- Förklaringar
- Cecrow: Maybe it gets better, but an uphill battle through its opening chapter. Not worth the effort.
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av Judy Blume
7,671 medlemmar
240 recensioner
3.8
Global rankning 135
Rankning 0
Tillagt 2015-05-20, 10:17 PM
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- cej1027,ManWithAnAgenda
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21,720 medlemmar
188 recensioner
4.1
Global rankning 178
Rankning -3
Tillagt 2014-11-28, 07:20 AM
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- SimoneA,lorax , ,merrystar ,ManWithAnAgenda
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- lorax : Thumbs downed with the suggestion that the OP try a different translation next time.
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35,521 medlemmar
541 recensioner
3.8
Global rankning 129
Rankning 0
Tillagt 2014-02-26, 11:03 PM
- 3 Members
- Crypto-Willobie, cej1027, Diane-bpcb, ,Cecrow ,ManWithAnAgenda
- Förklaringar
- Cecrow : Skip the whaling detail chapters if you must, but they build sympathy for the whale and add a strong dose of realism.
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3,627 medlemmar
93 recensioner
4
Global rankning 142
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Tillagt 2013-11-26, 07:53 PM
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- ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda