Name a popular book that you've disliked or gave up on

I've tried listening to Devil in the White City and can't seem to get more than half way through it.

I'm also struggling to finish the first Dark Tower installment.

American Sniper Chris Kyle

A Confederacy of Dunces

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Not sure it's considered great but I could not make it through the first book in the GoT series. Tried twice and gave up.

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The problem with ASOIAF is that you end up spending more time flipping back and forth between the chapter you are reading and the damn family lineage summaries in the back of the books. I kept losing track of who everyone was, so it was difficult to stay on track and build up momentum. After I struggled about halfway through the first book (including rereading several of the chapters), I flew through the 2nd half.

I'm definitely glad that I read the books during my first go around rather than listen to the audiobooks. I can't stand the sound of the narrator and he mispronounces a lot of names and words that make it hard to follow.

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A Confederacy of Dunces



Same. I finished it, but never understood the praise it gets.

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I enjoyed it, but wasn't blown away or anything.


Slaughterhouse Five did nothing for me.

I couldn't make it through the first book of the Expanse series...and I'm someone who can read anything, and almost never stops until the end of a series, much less a book, even if I've decided that it isn't very good.

I can't explain exactly what it was, just felt like every sentence screamed "HELLO READER I AM A CHARACTER IN A SCI-FI STORY" and I could not get into it.

Wheel of Time hands down for me.

Sword of Truth.

I read The Gunslinger then about 150 pages of Drawing of Three and stopped. It wasn't like I stopped dead. Something came up and I didn't pick it up for a month. I haven't had any interest in going back. I asked a friend that has read everything by King, and she told me that if I didn't like it by now, I wouldn't like the series. I took her word for it. I found it frustrating that I was around 1.5 books into a series and I still didn't really have an idea of what the overarching goal was.

I gave up on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.

It seemed like she was hitting me over the head with a hammer, despite the obvious nature of her fiction serving as a lesson for obvious lessons of basic economics. I had to quit because it just felt like I was reading a children's parable.