The Books You've Never Finished...

Ursa, Use of Weapons is great. If you don't love the ending then I will go to the foot of our stairs (as we say in Lancashire).
 
I'm lazy; but I am, on occasion, prepared to go to the foot of my sock.
 
"Well, I'll go the foot of our stairs". A northern English phrase meant to indicate something noteworthy and surprising. The phrase is suggestive that the surprise would be worth passing on to anyone who was upstairs, by going 'to the foot our stairs' and shouting up to those who hadn't heard it.
 
The Honor of the Queen - Honor Harrington, Book #2.

I got through the first HH book, On Basilisk Station.

Only redeeming quality of those books is that the action is amazing.

In the second book, the ultra feminism and politics, and the fact that Honor herself is just a giant unlikeable turd made the book unreadable.
 
VALIS13 said:
If you don't love the ending then I will go to the foot of our stairs

or

If you don't love the ending then I will eat my hat

Same kind of thing.
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Ah! I know and use the expression "... then I will eat my hat." Never knew the other one. P'raps I'll start using it :)
 
I read a few pages of Jack Vance's The Dying Earth and just gave up.
 
"The Curious Case Of The Dog In The Night", everyone was raving about this one, but I just could not get into it.
P.S. The title is a quite from the Sherlock Holmes story "Silver Blaze", one of my favourites, you'll who the murderer is!
 
I may have made more than one attempt on Bester's Demolished Man but never managed to read it.

Never managed to finish W. H.Hodgson's The Night Land.
 
REF: Extollager.
That's strange, I really like Alfred Bester's "The Demolished Man".
I've re-read it a couple of times and prefer it to "Tiger!, Tiger!".
It just goes to show how tastes differs!
 
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BigBadBob141 said:
"The Curious Case Of The Dog In The Night", everyone was raving about this one, but I just could not get into it.
P.S. The title is a quite from the Sherlock Holmes story "Silver Blaze", one of my favourites, you'll who the murderer is!
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Haven't read the book but I've seen the play and apparently it is a good and funny ending that the lead ends up living with someone who will kill a dog after a minor domestic. Really? Living with someone with such violent anger issues is funny.
 
Temperance said:
Haven't read the book but I've seen the play and apparently it is a good and funny ending that the lead ends up living with someone who will kill a dog after a minor domestic. Really? Living with someone with such violent anger issues is funny.
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I think you'd need to read the book. I had no preconceptions about it, read it, and loved it.
 
REF: Temperance.
Your right, doesn't sound too good to me.
I hate domestic violence and cruelty to animals!
 
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