I Lied! - Books I Haven't Read

Out of some masochistic desire to display my failures (or a not-so-masochistic desire to inflate my post count), I present a list of books I haven't read - or more precisely tried to read, but just couldn't get all the way through.

- "The History of Love," Nicole Krauss: I'm sure this is better written than "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," but I just can't read two Holocaust-tragedy-meets-present-day-tragedy-in-a-quirky-fashion novels right in a row. My mistake.
- "The Name of the Wind," Patrick Rothfuss: Ye gods, this book is long. And nothing much happens in it - I understand that fantasy doesn't sell if it's not in a trilogy, but really, if you're going to write almost 700 pages' worth of book, you should really have something interesting happen. Perhaps I'm being harsh and something really earth-shattering occurs right after the point where I gave up, but other than the obligatory orphaning scene, basically the highlights of our hero's journey involve being banned from a library and playing the lute. There's a whole lot of playing the lute.
- "The Scar," China Miéville: Bad timing - a book about a city of ships menaced by a giant sea monster is a poor choice for beach reading. It's also a bad book to take on a transatlantic flight (lots of nice gory descriptions of people falling out of airships into the sea).