Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. Each week they will post a new Top Ten list that one of their bloggers over at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join.
The topic for this week is: Ten Books I Almost Put Down But Didn’t
I rarely stop reading a book once I start it. I push though until it is finished if it is a book I’m not enjoying. But there have been a few which I’ve wanted to stop but persevered with because when I start something – I want to finish it.
Books Which I Ended Up Enjoying But Were SO SLOW To Start:
Gameboard of the Gods by Richelle Mead
DarkFever by Karen Marie Moning
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Books I Wasn’t Overly Fond of But Continued on With the Series and Ended Up ADORING the Series:
Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan
The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare
Books I Struggled to Finish and When I Did, I Didn’t Enjoy the Ending:
Love in the Time of Chloera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
For some of these I put them down for over a year before I picked them up again to finish them but I think that it still counts that I didn’t “put them down” because I finished them in the end.
Any here you liked? Any here you too had problems finishing? Let me know what you think about this week’s topic 🙂
I nearly put down Atonement too. I just couldn’t get on with it. My feelings about it now are that it wasn’t amazing, but I’m glad that I gave it a go. I really need to read some Neil Gaiman. I keep seeing his books around, but have never got to them!
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I love Percy Jackson! There’s such an extraordinary amount of imagination. Plus the chapter titles are cool. I still don’t like The Mortal Instruments, though :/
I’ll keep this in mind when I finally get around to reading Gameboard of the Gods – I love Richelle’s books but I have put this one off for some reason!
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Aw! I am so glad that you gave PJO and COB a chance! 🙂
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I had a hard time with Dragon Tattoo at first also! It was really boring in the beginning, but I ended up really liking it and the entire series.
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The Queen’s Choice has a GORGEOUS cover and my co-blogger has been pushing me to read Gameboard of the Gods! I put off Darkfever too, but haven’t picked it up again. THE LIGHTNING THIEF. PERCY. <33 Not in love with the Mortal Instruments–actually, the series got worse for me as it went on. I loved the first three books. Thanks for sharing!
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I’m glad you stuck with Soulless and that it worked out for you. I personally love the book from pretty much the start and the series was really fun for me.
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Yes! The Girl with the dragon tattoo was very slow paced at first. Whoa! Being such a lengthy book I almost gave up as well. Glad I didn’t.
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I had the same issue with City of Bones! I’m glad I finished it, because now I’ve read it three times over! Although I applaud you for finishing the Queen’s Choice – I DNFed at 10%. I just couldn’t get past the dryness, and I couldn’t connect to the characters at all.
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I adore City of Bones and the rest of the series! Shall have to find out about the rest of your listed books.
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I haven’t read any of these, though I do want to see what I think of Souless, since I think I was recommended it and it sounds really interesting! Hopefully it ends up being a really good read!
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Quite a selection, Kate. I can understand why you would’ve put them down, though. The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo is one that I won’t even attempt to read.
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