What books you have you left unfinished? What are you currently reading?

[whatthe]

List if you can, the pile of books you have left unfinished. Unless of course you have plain lost them. What are you currently reading?

I have left unfinished:

[B]1. [/B]"The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen" (Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw)
[B]2.[/B] "QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter" (Richard Feynman)
[B]3.[/B] "A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1)" (George R. R. Martin)

[B]Currently reading[/B]: "Gödel, Escher, Bach - The Eternal Golden Braid" (Douglas Hofstadter)

Just finished:

[B]1.[/B] "The Lord of the Rings" Series +
[B]2. [/B]"The Hobbit" (J.R.R. Tolkien)

[lintz]

LOTR. Too long winded and flowery. Can't focus.

[Caarle..]

Currently reading Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly, it's kinda boring to read, all the "twists" have been either really simple or just not interesting.

Probably never gonna finish Metro 2034, it's pretty damn lame compared to 2033, and the storyline is dumb as fuck.

[mookie]

Unfinished:

1) Phenomenology of Perception - Maurice Merleau Ponty (What the fuck was i thinking when i bought this book?)

2) On War - Carl von Clausewitz (Like Sun Tzu, only more boring. Or maybe i'm too stupid to appreciate it.)

Currently reading:

1) Looking for the Lost: Journeys Through a Vanishing Japan - Alan Booth (Just finished "The Roads to Sata" by the same author, love his "Mono no aware" and sarcastic style of writing.)

2) Captain Corelli's Mandolin (The chapter starring everyone's favourite italian douche was fucking hilarious, looking forward to what comes ahead)

Just finished:

1) Makura no Sōshi - Sei Shōnagon (Basically the diary of an upper class cunt in Heian Japan, but you don't have to like an author to enjoy her works)

2) A Geek in Japan - Hector Garcia (A quick guide to whet the appetites of potential japanophiles)

[whatthe]

[QUOTE=mookie;43472689]
Just finished:

1) Makura no Sōshi - Sei Shōnagon (Basically the diary of an upper class cunt in Heian Japan, but you don't have to like an author to enjoy her works)

2) A Geek in Japan - Hector Garcia (A quick guide to whet the appetites of potential japanophiles)[/QUOTE]

Good idea. Added my just finished books.

[Evi.tf]

begun reading of mice and men yesterday, im about halfway through the book

[Bat-shit]

[QUOTE=Fourm Shark;43472838]Franz Kafka - [i]The Trial[/i]

Something felt broken about it. Couldn't get to the end because it was exhausting to read.[/QUOTE]

Franz Kafka is a pretty crazy fucker to be honest. And is certainly known for it.

Read his Castle. It has some stupid-levels of bureaucracy, an almost irrelevant main character who gets nothing done, and basically a 300-page "story" where absolutely nothing happens. I guess it's a good (and an obsessive) portrayal of exactly that.

[editline]9th January 2014[/editline]

Also I read this book by first reading it from start to mid. Then I skimmed from the end back to mid, and then finished it from there. Can't say I left it unfinished, but I certainly didn't like it. (Don't think you're even supposed to like it.)

[Novangel]

Decided to try and start reading the 2001:A Space Odyssey book.

[Zonesylvania]

The Malazan book of the Fallen. Re-reading it, actually.

Currently finished Gardens of the Moon and Deadhouse Gates. I'll start on Memories of Ice this weekend, if I get around to it.

[Ghost_Nixon]

[B]Unfinished:[/B]
1. Atlas Shrugged (Got too boring and I didn't read it for about a month so I forgot everything)
2. The Hobbit (I didn't understand it when I first started reading, then I misplaced it)
3. IT (Just not my type of book)

[B]Reading Now:[/B]
1. American Psycho (Damn it's crazy good, literally crazy)

[B]Finished Recently[/B]
1. Unbroken: A WWII Story of Survival (A biography about Olympic runner Louis Zamperini)
2. The Road (Really good)
3. The Scarlet Letter

[Chris_the_qt]

I left space oddesy 2001 unfinished. Not because I was bored of it but because I was assigned books by my others classes to read so when I got the others finished I had to turn the book in. It was my fault really because I only had to read only fractions of the books I was assigned a day, but when I was finished with them I really wanted to go do something else than stay home a read before it got dark.

Right now I'm reading Fahrenheit451

[notgeogzm]

Roadside picnic

my fuckin bookmark fell out and I can't remember how far in I was :(

[EddieLTU]

Harry Potter And The Philosophers Stone
i don't read it for like, 10 years. Just read few pages

[Smas]

Currently working on H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction. Basically it's a fairly large tome with (you guessed it) every piece of fiction that Lovecraft ever wrote, in order of publication. Each work is also prefaced with background information on each piece, which is quite insightful. Altogether, one of the better books that I've payed for as of late, only cost $20 too.

[kirby2112]

I can't think of any I've left unfinished, but I'm currently reading Gertrude & Claudius by John Updike and Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear

[OldAverageJoe]

I finished Starship Troopers and The Stars are my Destination.

I'm reading the 3 original Gundam Novels atm

I need to finish Naked Lunch

[Oskutin]

I have some leadership book i bought 3 years ago for 70€.
Still unfinished.
And what i am currently reading is nothing.

[flashn00b]

Currently have the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya novel unfinished. Currently reading the Imperial Infantryman's Handbook, though mainly for the Imperial prayers near the end of the book.

[Big D Duchovny]

Currently reading "Nothing to Envy: Ordinary lives in North Korea", and it's pretty good. Extensively researched and written in a pretty engaging way.

I'm also reading "Times of Contempt", though I stopped reading it since I wanted to read the other book. Might read Blood of Elves again just to get into the story once more - there's a lot of stuff I don't remember.

I'm also reading The New Testament - not because I'm religious, but it's actually pretty interesting (if laborious) even (or maybe more so) if you're an atheist. Fuck The Old Testament, though, I don't think I'll be able to get myself through that.

In an ironic turn of events, "The Hobbit" is the only book I can remember that I didn't pull through. Can't remember why I stopped reading, but it's weird considering I pulled through LOTR no problems.

[Iconoclast]

Currently reading Wool by Hugh Howey

I've left Felix J. Palma's the Map of Time unfinished but I intend to finish it someday

[MazerRackham]

[B]Currently Reading:[/B]
The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter

[B]Recently Finished:[/B]
Hung Like An Argentine Duck by Dr John Long
The Greatest Show On Earth by Richard Dawkins
Rise Of The Iron Moon by Stephen Hunt