Fiction

Lord of the Rings. I couldn't get more than two chapters into The Hobbit, which everyone said was a great way to start, so I've never even tried the real thing.

I no longer even consider finishing books I'm not liking. I'll give it fifty pages or so, and that's it.

Finishing a book that's reasonably interesting, but not liking it for some reason or another is a different story. I have learned the hard way that if a novel is hugely praised, I'm probably not going to like it. Couldn't get more than a third of the way through The Road. Couldn't get past the first paragraph of A Million Little Pieces or whatever that stupid book is called, because it starts out with him coming to on board an airplane and bleeding profusely. I'm a former airline employee, and I can tell you we would never board a passenger in that kind of condition.