Wednesday 23 March 2016

T5W: Books you didn't finish


So. I am new to this blog thing but I saw this group on Goodreads where every wednesday there's a top 5 related to books and I thought it was cool. I don't know if I'll be able to enter every single week (we have talked about how much of a procrastinator I am!) but I will enter whenever I can.

This challenge was invented by Lainey and you can learn everything and anything about it here!

And now for the Top 5 Books I Did Not Finish! (oooh).



1. Persuasion by Jane Austen. 

 I KNOW. A lot of you are going to hate me because who doesn't love
Jane Austen? The answer would be me. I really disliked this book and after carrying it around in my backpack for like 2 years worth of uni and only getting to the middle of the book, I decided to drop it. I didn't like the writing, I didn't like the characters and every single conception about how women should behave and of what a family should be just drove me nuts. So there.

  

2. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo.

I adooooooooore Les Mis, and by that I mean that I have seen
the show once, the movie twice and I listen to the soundtrack on repeat. I love the story, I truly do but I just CAN'T with the book. It's has way too many discriptions and the fact that I know nothing about the society of the time and the book is very political just turns it less interesting for me. I tell myself that I will finish this book one day (someday, very far far away) but for now it's just a nice base for my bedside lamp (Sorry, Victor Hugo pal).


 3. 1984 by George Orwell.
Ooooooops. I know, shame on me! But on my defence I started this baby in a really bad time in my life and it didn't make it easy for me to continue. This is one of the books that I will probably still read someday (especially because I went purposedly out in the rain to get it with a good price at the bookfair!) but it was just super hard for me to get into at the time.

4. The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory.

I read this one book by Philippa Gregory ("The Other Boleynn") and I fell in love with it so of course I thought I had found a new favorite historic writer and that everything she writes just has to be cool. I was WRONG. I did not like this book at all! I like the way Philippa Gregory tells us the history of a family from an outside POV but I just really hated the plot in this, with Hannah and Robert Dudley. I hated it. I hated Hannah, she was so naïve and I kept hoping for her to just grow up but 200 pages in and she still hadn't. PASS.

5. City of Glass by Cassandra Clare.
 This is the third book of that Mortal Instruments series that I was loving until Simon became a vampire because of course he would become a vampire. I mean, we can't have a fantasy book without a vampire in it anymore, it seems. After I picked up this book, I realized that my feelings towards it lived more in James Campbell Bower for playing Jace in the movies than in the book itself so I dropped it. And I don't plan to pick it up. Ever.

Et voilá! Which 5 books did you never finish? Leave your lists down bellow!!! Let's hate on books and stories together (kind of, not really because books are friends!).
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  1. Danica 23 March 2016 at 13:10

    I was just thinking the other day that I wanted to get into Greggory's books. A little hesitant now haha. But I love the Tudor era so I may still give it a try. I really liked 1984. Hopefully you pick it up in the future :)

    Danica @ A Redheaded Bookworm
    TOP 5 WEDNESDAY

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    1. Cat24 March 2016 at 04:50

      I honestly reccomend "The Other Boleynn Girl" because that was the one that hooked me and it's such an easy read but this one, "The Queen's Fool" is a big no-no for me.
      Yes! I liked what I read of 1984 so I think I just picked it up at the wrong time and it's definitly a book I'll give another try :)

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  2. reading experiences with nora23 March 2016 at 14:41

    Yes, I am in total agreement with you about City of Glass. And I stopped reading Persuasion, but I think i'll give it another try. Anyway, here's my list: https://readingexperienceswithnora.wordpress.com/2016/03/23/t5w-books-i-dnf/

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    1. Cat24 March 2016 at 04:51

      RIGHT??? I thought I had been the only one both to drop City of Glass AND Persuasion! I think I will give Jane Austen another try because I still got one more book of hers but Persuasion is just going to go on my never-again list.

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  3. PreppyBookPrincess25 March 2016 at 16:05

    Persuasion and Les Miserables have both been on my TBR list for quite sometime, but your list currently has me rethinking those a bit lol. I actually enjoyed City of Glass, but I can definitely see where you're coming from on being annoyed with every novel having to include a vampire character. Great picks :)

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    1. Cat26 March 2016 at 10:09

      Haha well I regret not buying the abridged version of Les Mis but I have also heard it's just as dense!
      Yes, that was my thing with the Mortal Instruments but only because I'm not reaaaally into vampires (and also, I really liked Simon!)

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  4. Unknown5 April 2016 at 12:17

    There's just one book I have not been able to finish: Allegiant

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    1. Cat6 April 2016 at 02:52

      Oh myyyy. You should have because the ending is BOOM! but okay, then you will probably be like me and be like 'whyyyy oh whyyyy'. I honestly don't remember a single thing from Allegiant (minus the ending) so.... hahaha

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    2. Unknown6 April 2016 at 06:45

      I know she dies. I got spoiled while I was still reading Insurgent

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    3. Cat6 April 2016 at 11:01

      Heyyy, the same thing happened to me :( i think I kind of read it in an attempt to prove it really happened, I was ike 'no, no, no'

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    4. Unknown6 April 2016 at 11:05

      I just couldn't even make it halfway through the book. The plot, characters and writing just weren't good.

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