Books You Never Quite Read

[Jo498]

I thought "never quite" meant:
started but did not finish
or
planned to read, typically up to having it on the shelves but never even started.

[(poco) Sforzando]

I thought "never quite" meant:
started but did not finish
or
planned to read, typically up to having it on the shelves but never even started.

Then I can include Karamazov, because I know I read at least a page.

And Finnegans Wake, because I have a copy and I think I opened it once.

[BasilValentine]

Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann. About fifty pages from the end I decided I just didn't care enough to finish it. I think it might be a problem with Mann in general. Reading Doctor Faustus, which I finished, I found myself thinking "descriptions of nonexistent musical works are unrewarding" and "he ripped off his devil from The Brothers Karamazov." Can't think of other examples of dropping a major novel unfinished.

[NikF]

In the science fiction genre I've started but never finished any of the 'Foundation' series by Asimov.

[Florestan]

In the science fiction genre I've started but never finished any of the 'Foundation' series by Asimov.

I've quite enjoyed that series. I've read all the volumes.

I've also enjoyed all the volumes in the "Dune" series.

I think that the latter is best suited to the philosophically inclined, while the former is best suited to the scientifically inclined.

[Daverz]

In the science fiction genre I've started but never finished any of the 'Foundation' series by Asimov.

A lot of classic SF is vastly overrated, and that's the case for the Foundation series.  Asimov is always pretty easy to read, though.

[Karl Henning]

A lot of classic SF is vastly overrated, and that's the case for the Foundation series.  Asimov is always pretty easy to read, though.

I think that's fair.

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[Ken B]

I've quite enjoyed that series. I've read all the volumes.

I've also enjoyed all the volumes in the "Dune" series.

I think that the latter is best suited to the philosophically inclined, while the former is best suited to the scientifically inclined.

No. Dune is for the religious twaddle fans. Dune is perhaps the worst book I never finished.

[Jo498]

I read a bunch of the "Foundation" series and as far as I recall they differed quite a bit in quality. My favorite Asimov are probably some of the shorter "robot" stories as well as "Caves of Steel" and "Naked Sun". I have not yet read "Dune".

[Parsifal]

No. Dune is for the religious twaddle fans. Dune is perhaps the worst book I never finished.

Never read the book, but now that I think of it, the film was perhaps the worst I ever saw. The scene where the main character rides a giant worm was perhaps the worst special effect I have ever seen in a movie. Awful in so many ways. And, of course, it was Sting's debut (and final?) acting role.

[Karl Henning]

Never read the book, but now that I think of it, the film was perhaps the worst I ever saw. The scene where the main character rides a giant worm was perhaps the worst special effect I have ever seen in a movie. Awful in so many ways. And, of course, it was Sting's debut (and final?) acting role.

Dune (the movie) I think of as a sort of apotheosis of the Jason-&-the-Argonauts sort of B-movie.  With the reduced expectations, I rather enjoy it.

I read Dune (the book), but I never felt inclined to read any of the sequels.  I cannot say I feel any strong impulse to re-read the book.

Sting has a great cameo in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.

[BasilValentine]

I read a bunch of the "Foundation" series and as far as I recall they differed quite a bit in quality. My favorite Asimov are probably some of the shorter "robot" stories as well as "Caves of Steel" and "Naked Sun". I have not yet read "Dune".

Both the Dune and Foundation series died ignominiously of sequelitis. Go beyond the original Foundation trilogy at your own risk. With Dune I wished I had stopped after the first one.

Yes, Sting as the hero who is executed for making the cowards feel inferior.  (in The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen)

[Karl Henning]

Both the Dune and Foundation series died ignominiously of sequelitis. Go beyond the original Foundation trilogy at your own risk. With Dune I wished I had stopped after the first one.

Here is the first I've learnt that there are more Foundation books! I might read the original three again, someday.

You're making me feel better still about not having gone beyond Dune.

[Ken B]

A lot of classic SF is vastly overrated, and that's the case for the Foundation series.  Asimov is always pretty easy to read, though.

Yes. Memories of it are clouded by adolescence.

I was worried when I re read Raymond Chandler he might not hold up, as I read him first in high school, but he does.