[Emma]

My list of books I couldn't finish is very long...I quite often start books and abandon them thinking I may go back to them again. Currently in that department we have:

What I loved - Siri Hustvedt
Life of Pi - Yan Martel (my mum says if I get through the first chapter I'll like it!)
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami (though I *loved* Sputnik Sweetheart)
Unless - Carol Shields
The Gift of Stones - Jim Crace
Dead Air - Iain Banks

The last three are authors I usually really like. Funny how that happens.

I have never managed to get through the third book of The Lord of The Rings (and have managed to miss the third film in an act of blatant stubbornness too).

I think I managed two chapters of Thomas Covenant.....

I managed to read 'The English Patient' (now one of my favourite books) by skipping the first chapter.