[Kater Murr]

(Original post by vector)
I haven't found any Orwell books I don't like ;no;

Which ones have you read? He's prob. my favourite English writer.

[vector]

I'm the same - I've even been out to see his old house on Jura

I've read:

The Road to Wigan Pier
1984
Homage to Catalonia
Animal Farm
Burmese Days
Down and out in Paris and London

I keep meaning to look for his others but haven't got round to it yet

[museobsessed]

i've read 1984, animal farm and down and out in paris and london, i liked them all

[brimstone]

Down and Out in Paris and Homage to Catalonia look really good. All I've read of his are 1984 and Animal Farm (and failed Burmese Days )

[Ascreavie]

(Original post by Axiom)

Joyce's linguistic experiments make it impossible to know or even guess what the plot is.

Not true.

[Naranoc]

If you've finished the Orwell books, read his essays. A number of them are very personal, some funny, and others very enlightening on a range of literary and political topics.

[noodles!]

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Hardy. I had to read it for school in Year 8 or something. The storyline was interesting, but the long chapters devoted to just describing a field were SO BORING.

[Naranoc]

Ben Okri's "The Famished Road". Well, technically I did finish it, but only by missing out reams of pages from the middle.

[LadyEnglish]

Wuthering Heights

[Reblet]

Deep shame on you.

[t kay13]

The malice box by Martin Langfield

I burnt that book

Then ate it

Then digested it

Ut is in my trachea

It think

I feel ill

[The Nightingale]

The 'Iron man' when I was in year 3!

I think it's the only book that's ever made me lose the will to live!

[lol_wut]

Something Happened by Joseph Heller

too depressingly repetitive

[LieDown]

Harry Potter.



Ugh.

[ecoledemerde]

I simply cannot finish Catch 22!

[moshing-fairy]

(Original post by brimstone)
As the title says really .

Normally, if I don't like a book, I'll try and persevere in the hope that it picks up. However, recently I've found that I really can't be bothered to push through a book if I'm not liking it.

Two recent novels I've tried to finish and failed :
Lady Chatterley's Lover - I got about a hundred pages in, and just gave up. I couldn't cope with the flowery language and the long bits where nothing was happening.
Crime & Punishment - Just no. Really.

A suitable boy.Vikram Seth.

which is a shame.
because it was tremendously well written. just the names used to confuse me as they were all too similar, and i put it down for a few weeks, never to be able to regain my place.

[romeosbitch]

(Original post by LieDown)
Harry Potter.



Ugh.

Thank. God. someone else!

I really don't get what the hype is about with those books.

Can't finish LOTR.
I've finished Heart of Darkness but the experience was emotionally painful.
Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year also had to be ploughed through.
Never finished Emma either.

[LieDown]

No I don't understand twahts so good about them either. Took me ages to start reluctantly reading them, then skim-read up to number four. By the time I got to that one, I was mind-numbingly bored of them and haven't picked them up since. I like lord of teh Rings, but I've only ever read teh first one. Haven't had time to start the others!

[Reblet]

Try A Clockwork Orange again in a while. I first tried to read it a year ago and loathed it, I read it a few months ago and absolutely adored it. A great book

[x_Bex_x]

Struggled with pride and predudice, then once I had seen the film and had some idea what was going on, could get past the flowery language, any really enjoyed re-reading.