Books on your shelves that you've never read

[buttmunch]

I just read an article about all those books you have that sit there glaring at you and filling you with shame because you haven't read them. Anyone else have this problem? Mine include a number of classics that I know I SHOULD read but can't quite tackle, as well as crappy books I've been given as gifts but don't want to read but can't quite throw away because I feel guilty. Anyone?

[LaFolie]

I hardly have any that I haven't read. I'd feel like a traitor.

[McJag]

Umm-a person might be quilty of this same flaw. Even worse,she might buy some on sale and then just stack them up in case she ever has to have-say-surgery. She feels guilty only whan someone has the nerve to start a tread like this! Some books change their cover & add so much pizazz that I notice I've read them only when I-um-she gets them home!! So,yes. A person might have this same problem.
Sometimes,one might purchase a book & then a newer more fun book comes out & she shoves the first one aside. Just sayin'.

[Laurent]

There are several for me. Water for Elephants immediately springs to mind. I've heard it's great, but for some reason I can't bring myself to crack it open.

[A*O]

Lord Of The Rings. Don't h8 me. There are also several books that I know I've read but I haven't a clue what they were about.

[yanna]

This book that my brother bought me for my birthday. It was about this woman in Cuba who was fat and was dating an abusive, paranoid, alcoholic ex judge. At about her third or fourth beating in ten pages I threw it away and won't be returning to it.

[chartreuse]

Lord Of The Rings. Don't h8 me.

i've tried to read the LOTR books many times & just can't do it. there's nothing there that draws me in at all.

interesting thread...i've got several of these books on my shelves. i usually look at them & feel guilty for spending more time messing around online, rather than reading. :\

[qwerty]

There are several for me. Water for Elephants immediately springs to mind. I've heard it's great, but for some reason I can't bring myself to crack it open.

Good book but by no means a classic. Read it before the movie - yes, there is a movie in development - comes out.

[twitchy2.0]

Life of Pi. I keep starting but it hasn't made me stay yet.

[Butterfly]

Loads of books just sitting in the case waiting for me, and then the pile on my night stand... I keep on buying more... I have a real problem.

[LaFolie]

^I'm reading my 28th and 29th books of the year right now

[A*O]

Life of Pi. I keep starting but it hasn't made me stay yet.

Me too. It was a choice for my book club so I had to read it but it was mostly skimming. It didn't engage my interest at all. I don't like whimsy at the best of times but I can't understand why everyone raves about this one.

[Hummus]

I have a problem with keeping every book I read. I have a couple hundred.
I'm waiting for the kids to move out so I can have my library.
The very good ones I pay top dollar for to get the first edition/first printing.
Every one collects something I guess. Drives my hubby nuts!

[Eli]

Lord Of The Rings. Don't h8 me. There are also several books that I know I've read but I haven't a clue what they were about.

OMG what a story I have to tell! Well not that big really. Some twat told me to read LOTR so I started but it honestly bored the buggery out of me for reasons a lot of people will understand. But he didn't understand, he got in a rage and told me off for being illiterate (this coming from a guy who doesn't understand the complexities of To Kill A Mockingbird ) and said that it was my loss. I told him that it really truly wasn't my loss, in fact it was my gain of 50 hours of struggling through something I knew I'd never like. Needless to say we don't talk anymore.
Even my grandmother said that she tried reading The Hobbit but couldn't get past page 50. And that really shocked me.


Anyway I have about 50 books I haven't read yet. I buy more books than DVD's these days. There's The Stand, incomplete. Atonement, same. Eclipse, working on. Catch 22, can never get into it. And a shitload more.

[Mariesoleil]

I have a problem with keeping every book I read. I have a couple hundred.
I'm waiting for the kids to move out so I can have my library.
The very good ones I pay top dollar for to get the first edition/first printing.
Every one collects something I guess. Drives my hubby nuts!

I'm the same. I'm getting close to 800 and running out of space.