Thursday, June 11, 2009

Books I hate to finish

This post has been on my "to post" list for a real long time. I thought of making a list of books i have never been able to finsh reading till date (I dont't think I have the courage to do it in future)
1)Untouchables by Mulk Raj Anand : I have made numerous attempts at reading this , but have failed.I think i might give it a try some time soon.
2)Dracula by Bram Stoker :This book was interesting and i stopped reading it when the story was in a interesting position.But thenI read a illustrated classics comic on Dracula( good one!) and also i have seen this in so many movies , I was not so much keen to go back to the book.
3)Persuasion by Jane Austen: Oh my god! What a book! I must have hardly read 2 chapters.
4) Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak: One more torture of a book.The movie though was good.I actually made one of my friends undergo the torture of reading this book. Just to hear her reaction ( He he he).soory Div if you are reading this !
5)Moneychangers by Arthur Hailey:I have read other books by Arthur Hailey but found this passable.
6)Sands of time by Sidney Sheldon: Perhaps the only Sidney sheldon book i picked up and could not finish reading.
7)The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald: Iam quite embarassed while i type this beacause this book is always placed among the literary classics of the 20th century.Well i know ....I started reading this book and left it in between.Some one please tell me what is remarkable about this book.I might then consider going back to it.

There are a lot more books i have bought , but never started reading them ...let alone finish it. But then i will do justice to them some day....some day i will find the time....really what a wretched life this is...

1 comment:

Diya said...

Hmmm... Ur Sorry is wasted ;) I have not completed the book yet, and it's still with me :-) As for 'The Great Gatsby'.... Well I would not recommend it very much...

And I always feel the 'classics' and the 'best sellers' are almost always overrated .. Especially for my tastes :-)