ITT you list all the books you tried to read but lacked the attention span for

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<p>ahaha i have schizophrenic reading habits</p>

<ul>
<li>the letters of vincent van gogh</li>
<li>aristotle's rhetoric</li>
<li>extremely loud and incredibly close</li>
<li>on the road </li>
<li>don quixote</li>
<li>the prince

<ul>
<li>portrait of a lady</li>
</ul></li>
<li>dreams from my father</li>
<li>hopscotch</li>
<li>crime and punishment</li>
<li>the silmarillion</li>
<li>spoon river</li>
<li>the name of the rose</li>
<li>everlasting man</li>
<li>st. augustine's confessions</li>
</ul>

<p>i plan to finish all of them... eventually...</p>

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<p>Haha...Last of the Mohicans, by James Fenimore Cooper. </p>

<p>We were supposed to read it over the summer for APE last year, but 95% of the class either saw the movie or skimmed Sparknotes. And, of course, the very first day of school, our teacher assigned a 5-page analytical essay on it. >.< Sorta problematic when you haven't gotten past the title page... =/</p>

83

<p>Eragon
Pride and Predjudice
The Crucible
Founding Brothers (or something.. history book)
any Shakespeare</p>

84

<p>lord of the rings
the scarlet letter
moby dick</p>

85

<p>Eh...</p>

<p>Lord of the Rings (I got through all of them except for the third one when I was just like, whatever.)
Anna Karenina
The World is Flat</p>

<p>I will finish them someday. :D</p>

86

<p>Naked Lunch</p>

<p>Insanely disjointed and convoluted.</p>

87

<p>Things Fall Apart.</p>

<p>I know it's short, but I can't stand the style. I get the gist of what happened though, despite skipping chapters here and there and relying heavily on booknotes.</p>

88

<p>Ms. Dalloway- only assigned school book I haven't read it put me to sleep</p>

<p>Invisible Man- Never Finished it but reworking on it</p>

89

<p>I had to read Things Fall Apart for school. i actually thought it was very good.</p>

<p>more books..</p>

<p>Chronicles of a Death Foretold
oh my god i just drew a blank.. umm the book about the foundation of Eatonville and how the protagonist grows up (janie) and something about a pear blossom tree...shows how much attention i paid it (had to read it for school)</p>

90

<p>Their Eyes Were Watching God ^ that book</p>

<p>I also didn't read it haha.</p>

91

<p>I've read a lot of the books mentioned here, and I've always enjoyed them. I love reading. </p>

<p>It may seem ridiculous, but the only book that I started and couldn't finish was Anne Frank. I don't know why, but I seriously detested the book. It's an irrational hate.</p>

92

<p>candide
last of the mohicans(if you get the chance to read this, ehh dont)</p>

93

<p>rofl @ not having the attention span for Harry Potter</p>

<p>You must have read maybe 2 books in your entire lifetime I'm assuming?</p>

94

<p>There can be many reasons as to why the person was disinterested in Harry Potter. Perhaps s\he simply got tired of it. It is wrong of you to assume that that is indicative of his\her reading ability. That was an unnecessary attack. ;)</p>

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<p>Scarlet Letter</p>

<p>hah I think that's the 10th or so time it's shown up here</p>

96

<p>
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rofl @ not having the attention span for Harry Potter</p>

<p>You must have read maybe 2 books in your entire lifetime I'm assuming?

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<p>Here is my reading list: (and yes I sincerely couldn't build up the attention span to read Harry Potter - hence why I immediately went to the end of the book when I asked to take a look at it)</p>

<p>The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Kuhn), Consilience (E.O. Wilson), The Psychology of Science and the Origins of the Scientific Mind (Feist), Origins of Wealth (Beinhocker), The Blank Slate (Pinker), Origins of Genius (Simonton), The Bell Curve (Herrnstein and Murray), The Scientist as Rebel (Dyson), Sweet Dreams (Dennett), Mind Wars (Moreno), Darwin's Dangerous Idea (Dennett), The Devil's Chaplain (Dawkins), The Extended Phenotype (Dawkins), The Selfish Gene (Dawkins), Scientific Genius: A Psychology of Science (Dean Simonton), Beyond Good and Evil (Nietzsche), Towards a Genealogy of Morals (Nietzsche), Human All Too Human (Nietzsche), How the Mind Works (Pinker), Rare Earth (Brownlee and Ward), Life and Death of Planet Earth, The Astonishing Hypothesis (Crick), The Nurture Assumption (Harris), No Two Alike (Harris), The World is Flat (Friedman), The Language Instinct (Pinker), Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation, Fat Politics, Romance of Three Kingdoms, Deschooling Society (Illich), Freakonomics, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, Talking About Leaving - Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences, Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns, Sorry But Your Soul Just Died (Wolfe), The Quest for Consciousness (Koch), The Scientist in the Crib (Gopnik), Heaven in a Chip (Kosko), Noise (Kosko), Mind (Searle), Scientific American Mind</p>

<p>What is Life (Schrodinger), A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness (V.S. Ramachandran), The g Factor (Jensen), Outsmarting IQ: Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence (Perkins), The Synaptic Self (LeDoux), Where Mathematics Comes From, The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences (Wigner), Why Nerds are Unpopular (Graham), The Quark and the Jaguar (Murray Gell-Mann), Marie Curie biographies, The Wealth of Networks:
How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
by Yochai Benkler, Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid (Sternberg)</p>

<p>==</p>

<h1>and a slew of research journal articles</h1>

<p>The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind: Books: Elkhonon Goldberg</p>

<p>Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age</p>

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<p>I actually liked the Scarlet Letter... :)
I wish I hadn't finished Jane Eyre. Dear God Charlotte Bronte needed an editor. The only ones I actually didn't read were the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Song of Roland. Stupid, stupid epic poems.</p>

98

<p>Jane Eyre definitely had ending-issues (though I still finished it).</p>

<p>The two particular books that I can think of at the moment are Ada and Invitation to a Beheading, both by Vladimir Nabokov, but I'm still planning on finishing them. Nabokov is an amazing writer, but the plot part of those books got a bit weak around the middle. I liked them, but I kept putting them off for other books I was reading, and then it was time to return them to the library.</p>

99

<p>If you didn't finish Lord of the Rings, you are SERIOUSLY missing out!</p>

<p>As for me, The Unvanquished, Intruder in the Dust, Walden (the the first hundred pages were good), Gulliver's Travels, Treasure Island, Watership Down (not boring, but I had to return it), Pudd'nhead Wilson, and others.</p>