there is one book i have started at least three times and i cannot get passed the third chapter, and that book is A Tale Of Two Cities (Dickens)... i want to read it... i have read a lot of Dickens, but cannot follow through on this one... it took me two tries to get through Lolita (Nabokov)...
Lolita is difficult but well worth reading. It’s pretty fantastic.
Try Victor Hugo...I couldn’t even put Hunchback of Notre Dame down and did not really understand it fully until the second time I read it.
Three times I started “Lord of the Rings.” And three times I made it about half way through the third book and then tossed it aside. To this day I don’t know how it ended.
The trouble is....I don’t like Fantasy. I was only reading it because everybody else was reading it.
Tale of Two Cities is largely a set-up to the last 40 pages, where suddenly you find yourself so caught up you can hear your pulse pounding in your ears.
I always wanted to read The Spike, but I don’t know how many times I started it and couldn’t get very far. Don’t know why, it just didn’t hold my interest. I thought it would.