What Book Do You Think You Should Read But Keep Putting Off?

[ToraToraTora]

In a similar vein to barry's book question, do you have a book that sits on the shelf taunting you? "Come on read me, you know you want to"? Mine is Don Quixote - Cervantes. There are 768 pages and the print is so small I'd need the bins!

[Canary42]

Bleak House. I can never get into it in spite of loving his other books.

[naomi24]

I've a few on my shelf unread, among them 'This Sceptred Isle' by Christopher Lee (I don't think he's that Christopher Lee).  That one taunts me.   

 

A couple more that I should have read in my student days nagged me for ages - so I've remedied that within the past few years.  'The Catcher in the Rye' and 'To Kill a Mockingbird'.  Both great books. 

[pastafreak]

Actually,  it's a book Naomi has mentioned several times...including on Barry's book thread.

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón...and the 3 books that make up the series. All on my kindle...waiting.

Also most of Dickens...read Great Expectations in High school. That and Jane Austen can be hard going for a 16yr old.

[barry1010]

None that I know I want to read, a few that I know I ought to including Shakespeare and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 

[jackthehat]

Dickens, anything by Dickens.

I find it such hard work; to quote Victoria Wood, "It's like trying to munch your way through a roll of loft-insulation".

Oh, and that goes for Henry James, too - surely he must hold the record for the longest sentences ever constructed in the english language?

[MargoTester]

A friend gave  me A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth-and  said 'you must read this it's excellent' I started out on the 1349 page tome and got though about 50 pages before I gave up. Had to keep going back and forth to check who was who and totally lost interest and gave it back to her.

[Maydup]

I have

The Shadow of the Wind

on the shelf collecting dust. I should try it again someday.

[Canary42]

Keep trying peeps, I took ages getting into A Thousand Splendid Suns, but when I finally made it I found it a wonderful book.

[jno]

I did read Ulysses but it was quite hard work; I won't be bothering with Finnegans Wake.

I'm okay with early Dickens but later books are so long and involved; if I was going to read 900 pages I'd need to be on a beach somewhere. I read War and Peace, long ago while the TV series with Anthony Hopkins was still fresh in my mind.

There's a Hawking Index here (beats me how people don't read The Great Gatsby, it takes less time than it does to watch any of the movies made from it).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_Index

[Arksided]

Aldous Huxley 'Brave new world' I must have started to re-read it five or six times over the past thirty years +. I only ever seem to get about three quarters in... then something else comes along.

[ToraToraTora]

jno, strange that "A Brief history of time" is the most unread book. I've read it about 4 times I find it explains things very well with real world analogies. There is also a much bigger illustrated version with superb diagrams etc.

[bednobs]

wuthering heights.

In fact, i may take it to the HWRC next time i go

[davebro3]

I can't think of one off hand (too many to pick from). Maybe ask "What book do you think everyone should read?".

[davebro3]

I bought "Of Human Bondage" but I haven't read it. I don't think it's about what I thought it was!😂

[ToraToraTora]

I had this book about superglue, couldn't put it down.

[Khandro]

I haven't got such a book, but I've got a DVD of Die Nibelungen – Siegfried. 1924.  -  (Sigfried and the Nibelungen). A famous silent film of early German cinema by Fritz Lang. Its five hours long, I bought it ages ago, but I can't see me ever watching it, unless God forbid I end up one day in a care home.