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Heehee Zeeb Send a noteboard - 05/04/2012 08:22:13 AM
I never really finished (or maybe technically "started" as I never got past page 20) Ulysses, but as an English professor once said (no clue who - why waste a good anecdotal story on finding facts) "no one has read Ulysses, including English professors".

I started in two books by Modessitt Jr and both times I threw the book across the room out of window out of sheer hate of his writing. (His? Hers?)

When they first came out, the Earth's Children books by Jean M Auel were huge here in the Netherlands. I read book 1 three times (and loved the movie), book 2 twice, book 3 once, got halfway through book 4 before putting it away disgusted, read about 100 pages of book 5 and never bothered with book 6.

I'm sure there are others, but can't think of them right now.


I like picturing you hurling books across the room in disgust! Maybe that's what I should have done with my book...it was more that it made me feel dirty and in need of a shower, and a little bit depressed. I passed it on to another book club member and will mooch it after she's done with it I think - get rid of the thing!
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There have been plenty. j-whitt987 - 31/03/2012 01:40:56 PM 1278 Views
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Re: Hm. Rarely as a conscious decision... Zeeb - 04/04/2012 08:49:56 AM 1350 Views
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Me too. I tried twice. Rebekah - 31/03/2012 04:18:50 PM 1274 Views
i sometimes can't believe i managed to read those books... so much vile stuff in there *NM* temeraire - 01/04/2012 06:53:50 AM 484 Views
Cor Zeeb - 04/04/2012 08:51:49 AM 1332 Views
I gave The 120 Days of Sodom a try. Yuck. kHz1000 - 31/03/2012 03:45:55 PM 1155 Views
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More out of boredom than dislike, but there have only been a handful. *NM* eromreven - 31/03/2012 04:12:32 PM 520 Views
Rarely. Stephen - 31/03/2012 04:59:50 PM 1099 Views
As a conscious decision, only Moby Dick A Deathwatch Guard - 31/03/2012 09:57:11 PM 1093 Views
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Page 1? That is impressive. *NM* Legolas - 01/04/2012 11:26:09 PM 471 Views
You can laugh all you want Legolas, but I agree Artsapat - 02/04/2012 06:42:36 PM 1086 Views
Reading anything Victorian or older in Dutch translation tends to be a bad idea, agreed. Legolas - 02/04/2012 10:24:54 PM 1072 Views
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Get out *NM* Zeeb - 05/04/2012 08:19:34 AM 574 Views
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Of course! All the time! Vivien - 02/04/2012 11:28:58 PM 1144 Views
Re: Of course! All the time! Zeeb - 05/04/2012 08:24:10 AM 1227 Views
Definitely try- give yourself permission to stop/quit. Vivien - 11/04/2012 08:47:07 PM 1052 Views
All the fucking time. rebelaessedai - 10/04/2012 04:28:13 AM 1093 Views
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I know right? rebelaessedai - 16/04/2012 04:53:19 AM 1198 Views
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