... and either have yet to finish, or gave up.

There's a couple I've yet to finish, and that's Different Season by Stephen King, but that was due to moving from one place to another last year, so I'm currently finishing that off, but between then and now, I read and finished about 14 books, but for some reason I never picked it back up.

Another one of his is The Talisman with Peter Straub, I am half way through it, and was reading it during the summer holidays, but for some reason I couldn't back in to it when I went back to work, maybe it was the holiday blues at play, but that's another I'm going to finish after Different Season.

One I couldn't get in to at all and gave up was The Greatest Secret Show by Clive Barker. It jumped all over the place, contradicting itself along the way, as well as not explaining these vials came to be etc, and we focused on the bad guy for most of the chapters, and knew nothing about the goodie, and then there was huge war between them which tore up half America apparently, and then in the next part where it focused on the four teenagers, nothing is mentioned about the war and it's devastating effects these two magicians have left behind.

I'm in middle of reading 3 different books at the moment and I'm about to begin another one and I'm also reading for my university entrance exam. Two Finnish novels: Kilpi's legendary Alastalon salissa (often compared to Joyce's Ulysses) and Rimminen's Nenäpäivä (the latest Finlandia award winner, hence important). Apart from that, I've been reading Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian as my first e-book on my Kindle. As for nonfiction, I'm about to begin reading Catherine Russell's epic book on Naruse (The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity). For my entrance exam I have to read a ton about translation and linguistic along with a couple of novels (including Faulkner's A Rose for Emily).

As a rule I'll try to finish every book that I read (in much the same way that I'll try and watch through every film that I see), but there are two books that I just can't seem to get through:

Don Quixote by Cervantes and Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.

I've attempted each on numerous occasions, but I can just never seem to get through to the end. It's infuriating as they're both excellent books and I'm slightly confounded as to why I can't complete them.

Anyway I still own copies of each and I plan on completing them one day (in the distant future perhaps).

Oh! Just remembered that I tried to get into Peter F.Hamilton's The Dreaming Void recently, but it was so boring that I kept nodding off each time I went back to it. It's a real shame as his Night's Dawn trilogy is one of the best space operas that
I've ever come across.

Now I've got a Chris Morris biography which is pretty interesting as well as The Greatest Sci-fi Films Never Made and Michael Ondaatje's Conversations with Walter Murch.

I've also got Year of the Hare reserved at the library as that came up in discussion recently - thanks Ozu.

I will flip through picture books and not read them--or just little parts when I feel like it.
I didnt finish a collected works on Robert E Howard-when I got to his novels, for some reasons I just lost interest.

I have been reading Sherlock Holmes but been very slow going through the stories.

I started to read League of Extraordinary Gentlemen but didnt like the art work so its just sitting under my computer table.


I forced myself to read Moby Dick after one or two aborted tries but I hardly remember any of it. makes me think maybe I didnt read it but convinced myself I did.

Oh and I think I gave up on Dickens--at least a couple of his books and Victor Hugo's Les Miserables.

I devoured the complete Sherlock Holmes years ago when I was unemployed and at a loose end. These are definitely stories that i can;t wait to read to my son.

I absolutely love The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Kevin O'Neill is definitely one of my favourite comic illustrators. His Nemsis stuff in 2000AD is absolutely awesome, but I have to say that the vibrancy of his TLOEG is probably amongst my favourite by him.

Moby Dick's one of my favourite books and the only Melville that I've read unfortunately. I was transported into such a fascinating world when I read it, only Dan Simmons and David Mitchell have had the same profound effect on me in contemporary literature.

I've not read that much Dickens, but I wasn't keen on Great Expectations or Oliver Twist, however Martin Chuzzlewit was an absolute corker. Dicken's undisguised horror of America at that time was of particular note in that it seems to be full of observations that many people would say are still prevalent today.

I love LOEG, I think I preferred vol. 1 to vol. 2 but only by about one story. The dense writing at the end of them slowed me down. Looking forward to the new LOEG 1969, and to read The Neonomicon.

I've got the 3 volume box set of Lost Girls by Alan Moore, I lost interest some way into the 2nd book. I loved the concept, it just didn't do much for me. Will give it another go one day.

"Saharasia" by James DeMeo and "Science and Sanity" by Count Alfred Korzybski are on my to read list but I struggle with them, far easier to pop on a film.

Also a few days away from my 2nd consecutive maximum library rental for "The Mass Psychology of Fascism" by Wilhelm Reich. I'd like to have finished reading it put it that way.

Also not started "The Golden Bough" by JG Frazer as I'm not sure how it will read.

Some great sounding books mentioned here, I'll have to have get sometime.