Have you ever started a book, and finished it years later?

[goissper101xoxo]

Ya I'm guilty

[TrishaAnn92]

There is one book that I started to read years ago and for some reason I stopped reading it and I plan on rereading it but I still haven't gotten around to it because I keep buying new books that I usually read right away.

[elizabeth100]

No, but if I read it again, sometimes it feels like I understand it differently the second time around.

[cathie]

I was halfway through 'Anne of Green Gables' when I was 16. My sister hid it from me and I couldn't find it, so I ended up finishing it when I moved out at 18 and bought my own copy.

[Sarah10]

Allllll the time. Most books I read, in fact. And I read a lot of books. There are some books I'v "been reading" for 13 years.

[Lilapo9]

The sad part is that I am guilty of reading just the information that I need to get a job done then tell myself when I have time I will read more... ahem.... I have a shortage of that time stuff...

[avid reader28]

No, when I read a book, I have to finish it. other wise I get quite obsessive

[memory]

This has happened with a lot of the classics such as "The Three Musketeers" where I couldn't get into the book as a teenager but got through it just fine as an adult. At some point, I may get through Don Quixote.

[Leonie555]

I read the trilogy by Bryce Courtenay...The Potato Factory, Tommo & Hawk and Solomons Song. The first 2 was read fairly quickly but Solomons Song .....uhmmm that book was on my bedside table for almost a year. I finally locked myself away and worked through that book!
Most enjoyable!!

[Ama Idim]

For me, I like finishing my book on time but I remember starting Lord of the flies on my own and finishing it about 4yrs later for a class review.

[Henrytbab]

Never ever. When I pick up a book to read I am the type of person that can not put it down until I am finished the bokk. Thank God my mom forced me to take speed reading classes or I would never get anything done LOL Sometimes though I re read books that I have read just for pleasure of experiencing it again.

I haven't either but it seems I might break the record.

[Arite Seki]

I only do that when I find a book uninteresting or boring in some kind of way. When I leave it and come back after years , it's usually by accident and when I come back I find that I enjoy it a lot more or I know fully that the book isn't my type. Most of the time though, it's a book that just needs some space

[Misty20058]

No i could never once i start it i have to finish

[Bigwig1973]

I used to always finish every book I read. Then, I went to college and often the class was only required to read parts of books, several short stories, some plays, or if I had purchased a compilation of books within a large book, I would only be required to read some of the books, not all. At first it REALLY bothered me, but, as there was not much I could do about it because I did not have time to finish them, I learned to ignore not finishing them. Many of them are still unfinished, but someday...

[dianaterrado]

I have and it's The Fallen Kingdom by Elizabeth May.