Very interesting thread...

I read the Lord Of The Rings once overy couple years for a long time...(thread creep)

On topic: Books I never got through were:

...quite a few of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books---except for Gatsby and This Side Of Paradise. I just don't like the people who inhabit his books generally. Scot and Zelda Fitzgerald's lives hit very close to home for me. Rather like me and Carol---but without the booze. I liked the story of Scot and Zelda's sad but unique lives better than his books.

I really enjoy John Steinbeck except for East Of Eden.
Other authors I don't bother with at all because from trying in the past I learned my lesson are:

Stephen King
Poe
William Faulkner
I didn't like anything bythe guy who wrote Bridges Of Madison County---although I liked that one. Go figure...

Can't take reading Shakespeare. Love seeing it though.---Although I love reading AND listening to Hamlet.

Thats just a few off the top.

Art Thieme