The last fic i gave up was The Black Dog by Kevin Bridges.  Absolute bilge

listening isn't reading. no doubt you're a millenial

I don’t read fiction very often but when I do, it tends to be because it’s something that is getting a lot of good reviews or lots of recommendations from friends. Last time I remember giving up on one was Where The Crawdads Sing

Crawdads was superb.

Each to their own. As I said, I’m no fiction connoisseur 

I go about a quarter of the way before giving up. It’s rare that a book suddenly becomes very good after that.

The most boring book I ever read was Jane Eyre 

Gave up about 1/4 of the way in, not necessarily a problem but it was one of my GCSE textbooks. Thank fvck for York Notes.

Jane Eyre is marvellous, what you on about.

What's the last boring fiction you read (and had good reason to think was good) - abandoned or not?

The bible

It’s the jagged little pill of books

Fine if you’re a neurotic teenage girl but not really aimed at the rest of us

(Jane Eyre, not the bible)

The satanic verses. Dull as shite 

Something to do with the New Austrian Tunnelling Method iirc. 

Look it up.

Also, The Satanic Verses is a brilliant book

listening is reading

risky is thick

I seldom read fiction. I usually have about six books on the go at once.

Just finished George Plimpton’s Bogey Man.

There’s a docu biopic about him somewhere. He was everywhere 

"This Is Not a Drill: Just Another Glorious Day in the Oilfield" by Paul Carter is a good book about boring.

I may have misunderstood the thread subject.  

It was well boring. 

Listening isn’t reading laz

A rare agree with hanners.  I am going for a wash

Risky can do neither tho. 

Listening to a book is readjng a book. They’re both consuming and absorbing the content of a book therefore they are the same thing.

Cooko - I have been trying to find somewhere that has that Plimpton doc available to stream. Might have to buy it on dvd.

ooh hang on

maybe this is it on Vimeo

When you listen to a book you need periforal hearing. You're thinking back, anticipating what is to come and being in the moment too. Yo 're bound to miss something along the way. It's a different thing to reading. The words on the page don't move. The reader's voice is your own. Brontë sounds better read in Yorkshire accent though. You have to learn to read with a Yorkshire accent.  

who cares whose the reader’s voice is?

Yes it’s on Vimeo just got it now 

The Golden Bowl by Henry James. 

Christ alive, it’s turgid. I’d read about theee pages which were one paragraph, then have to re-read them because I had no idea what they were meant to be saying, and then realised that they had meant nothing at all anyway. 

I retained nothing of it and within a week couldn’t recall ANYthing about it. I couldn’t even tell you if there actually was a bowl in it. 

James is imho not a fun author to read even if he’s a massive figure for all sorts of reasons. His brother’s philosophy is by contrast easy to read and genuinely uplifting.