Books I could NOT finish

Discover the books I couldn't finish and why—honest reviews on overhyped, slow-paced, or just not-for-me reads. Find out which titles didn’t make the cut!

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Ulysses

 

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Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

by Roddy Doyle

Winner of the Booker Prize – Roddy Doyle’s witty, exuberant novel about a young boy trying to make sense of his changing world It is …
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Kitchen

by Banana Yoshimoto

Two stories, "Kitchen" and "Moonlight Shadow," told through the eyes of a pair of contemporary young japanese women, deal with the themes of mothers, love, …
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Pedro Páramo

by Juan Rulfo

Deserted villages of rural Mexico, where images and memories of the past linger like unquiet ghosts, haunted the imaginations of the author. In one such …
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A Widow for One Year

by John Irving

“A Widow For One Year will appeal to readers who like old-fashioned storytelling mixed with modern sensitivities. . . . Irving is among the few …
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The Information

by Martin Amis

Fame, envy, lust, violence, intrigues literary and criminal—they're all here in The Information, as one of the most gifted and innovative novelists of our time …
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Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

This novel takes readers into a magical and richly peopled world which encompasses four generations of African American life. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights …
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London

by Edward Rutherfurd

“A TOUR DE FORCE . . . London tracks the history of the English capital from the days of the Celts until the present time. …
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Ancient Evenings

by Norman Mailer

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The Smithsonian Institution

by Gore Vidal

A teenage math genius is mysteriously summoned to the Smithsonian Institution, where a crash program to develop the atomic bomb is being conducted in the …