You ain't alone.
I have read three books on this list (A brief History of Time, Thinking Fast and Slow, and The Great Gatsby). I finished them all but thought A Brief History of Time was awful. Very poorly written, basically incomprehensible to the lay reader. Thinking Fast and Slow was interesting but far too long. He could have cut by 66% and still gotten the message across. Have read The Great Gatsby several times...no issues.
Personally, I don't have a problem with putting a book aside. Most recently did so with T.E. Lawrence's (Lawrence of Arabia) memoir, Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Life's too short to get bogged down in stuff you find boring.
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Replies to: "Don't feel so bad about not finishing a book."
- Don't feel so bad about not finishing a book. [LINK]
- Iggle - 10:56am 1/13/25
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- A great book can be opened to any page at any time. [NT]
- Curly1918 - 1:34pm 1/13/25
- That's not true with Hustler Magazine though. - BaronVonZemo - 1:37pm 1/13/25
- Nor this one: [NT]
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- MAS - 1:39pm 1/13/25
- Heh [NT] - BaronVonZemo - 1:47pm 1/13/25
- Nor this one: [NT]
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- MAS - 1:39pm 1/13/25
- That's not true with Hustler Magazine though. - BaronVonZemo - 1:37pm 1/13/25
- No one has ever read Atlas Shrugged cover-to-cover. [NT]
- MAS - 1:24pm 1/13/25
- Never attempted. - Iggle - 1:30pm 1/13/25
- She was an exceptionally poor fiction writer. - MAS - 1:37pm 1/13/25
- Never attempted. - Iggle - 1:30pm 1/13/25
- Thinking Fast and Slow is excruciatingly long for the subject matter. [NT] - iairishcheeks - 11:09am 1/13/25
- A great book can be opened to any page at any time. [NT]
- Curly1918 - 1:34pm 1/13/25