Yea, it was disappointing ...to me, anyway. I couldn't finish it. I barely got 30 minutes into it, honestly. It just felt like they read the cliff notes and added a bunch of their own Hollywood stuff to it. I felt bad for Oscar Wilde that night.
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Books or films that you didn't finish reading/watching
- Thread starter Deidre
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Oh that’s a shame. I really dig Picture. It’s not my favourite of Wilde’s work but Hollywood can’t seem to leave it alone.Yea, it was disappointing ...to me, anyway. I couldn't finish it. I barely got 30 minutes into it, honestly. It just felt like they read the cliff notes and added a bunch of their own Hollywood stuff to it. I felt bad for Oscar Wilde that night.
A few reasons, yawn worthy writing style being the most predominant. To a lesser extent, i have dyslexia and was unable to read until age 14, meaning i missed out on a lot of basic English education. So if i need to stop reading to lookup the meaning of too many obscure words it becomes tedious, educational but tedious. Then sometimes i just cannot get onto the story
Makes me glad I don't have dyslexia.
Got enuf issues without that.
I guess most if them are scrap iron based
Charlotte's style annoyed me, but mostly it was Jane Eyre herself. I really love Victorian Literature, but this book I just couldn't. Jane came off as such a Mary Sue.
Yerda
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I've tried and failed to watch 2001 all the way through four times. I got about an hour in the last time...and it will be the last time.
I've abandoned a few books over the years but Michael Chrichton's Prey I chucked with about 30 pages left. It started so well and then went downhill steadily til I was sick of it (scunnered, as we say round here).
I gave up on Bonfire of the Vanities, Middlemarch (though I have a friend who's a literature wiz who tells me I should go back to it so I will), every Shakepeare play I've tried except Romeo and Juliet, Catcher in the Rye, The Pale King, and I didn't finish Catch-22 the first three times I tried but then I did and I loved it.
I've abandoned a few books over the years but Michael Chrichton's Prey I chucked with about 30 pages left. It started so well and then went downhill steadily til I was sick of it (scunnered, as we say round here).
I gave up on Bonfire of the Vanities, Middlemarch (though I have a friend who's a literature wiz who tells me I should go back to it so I will), every Shakepeare play I've tried except Romeo and Juliet, Catcher in the Rye, The Pale King, and I didn't finish Catch-22 the first three times I tried but then I did and I loved it.