Thursday Meme

Welcome to Thursday's Meme brought to you courtesy of Booking Through Thursday.

I would enjoy reading a meme about people’s abandoned books. The books that you start but don’t finish say as much about you as the ones you actually read, sometimes because of the books themselves or because of the circumstances that prevent you from finishing. So . . . what books have you abandoned and why?

There are only two books that I've ever started and put down unfinished, knowing I was never going to pick them up again. Those books were Moby Dick and it was assigned reading, and It. For me, bad books are like bad movies: I stick with them to the end. With Moby Dick and It, they were really loooong books that I found to be verrry boring and not worth the effort. But you know what? I'll end up reading It sometime in my lifetime just because it's Stephen King.

In the same vein, I am currently "in the middle" of two books (a rarity in itself) that I only find mildly interesting, they're taking me forever to read, but I am determined to finish them no matter what. One is Yann Martell's Life of Pi and the other is Maguire's Wicked. To be fair, Wicked picked up considerably after the first two chapters. I only put it down to read challenge books. Life of Pi, however, I have my doubts. I intend to finish both books but you know what they say about intentions.