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"great" Books, That You Should Read But Somehow Can't !

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mikey4444 | 20:06 Mon 24th Jul 2017 | ChatterBank
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For me, its "The Catcher in the Rye"

This book has been recommended by many people over the years, but I just can't seem to get past the first few pages. My loss I am sure.
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so you could answr tonights university cack-up question
which Dickens novel is mentioned in the first para of catcher in the rye

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Actually, I got that right ( albeit a tad slower that that brainy student did ! )
I could never get far into The Invisible Man - H G Wells, eventually gave up trying.
walter scott
tried a few
waverley novels mainly - required school reading in the twenties apparently
Managed to get thro Kenilworth - because I wanted to see how he treated "luckless Amy Robsart" - historically she is chucked down a flight of stairs to allow Essex to marry Elizabeth
( 'aaaah' at the end of chap 6)
To Kill a Mockingbird for me, attempted it several times but just can't get into it.
Lord Of The Rings - it simply doesn't hold my attention past two pages.

The parish priest who married the present Mrs Hughes and I was John Tolkien, eldest son of the professor, so I had to enthuse politely about his father's works even though I only read The Hobbit.
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Lord of the Rings, too, like andy. Just can't do it. I fell asleep in the cinema when I took my son to see the films.
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Jo....you must be a very heavy sleeper, as the LOTR films were the noisiest that I have seen seen !
Lord of the Rings - one of my all time favourites. Read the first two books and finished book two around midnight. Jumped into my car and drove to a 24 hour Tesco to buy book three - just had to know what happened next. Have read the trilogy many times and always find something new.
Any fictitious book.
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Maggie....I first read the LOTR when I was about 16. I as so taken with the trilogy, that as soon as I finished Book 3, I started on Book 1 again !

For many years, I had the Penguin edition of "Ulysses" by James Joyce, on my bedside table.

It never failed to cure any bout of insomnia.

As a young boy, Aunts used to thrust "The Water Babies" by Charles Kingsley into my unwilling hands........I have always hated it !

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