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

chstress · Post by **chstress** » 21 May 2014, 20:22

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.

sammi8764 · Post by **sammi8764** » 21 May 2014, 21:02

Sort of. I never finished it though... The Sight by David Clement-Davies. It's a good book, even though it is a bit slow, but for some reason I could just never finish it. I feel bad, especially since my mom got me the sequel for Christmas a few years ago and I haven't even touched it. My problem is that I'll get distracted by other books, so I'll put one down and start another, then start another, and it'll be months before I make my way back to the first book, and by that time I forget a lot of the details and I'll usually reread the book and the whole process will start over again. It's pretty bad actually.

amansmith · Post by **amansmith** » 22 May 2014, 10:16

I did once. It was one of the Harry Potter books. I don't even remember why I stopped reading it, but I did and then I finished it a year or so later when the next one came out.

I think it was unintentional because I finish my books even if they are really bad...

countrysweetheart · Post by **countrysweetheart** » 22 May 2014, 10:56

Never, i usually finish it in a day if not two, especially if the book is really good and can't put it down. Which seems to happen a lot.

David Dawson · Post by **David Dawson** » 22 May 2014, 12:31

Ulysses I read on and off over a few years. There's also a few books that I've started, abandoned and then gone back to and read in their entirety later (of the books I've read in the past few months, I had made abortive starts at Infinite Jest and The Satanic Verses).

Corax · Post by **Corax** » 22 May 2014, 13:12

It took me forever to finish Alan Dean Foster's Splinter of the Mind's Eye.

ALRyder · Post by **ALRyder** » 23 May 2014, 20:52

I finished a lot of books I had started in junior high and high school only after I was in college. I was a really slow reader for a long time, and it took a lot to keep my interest. I have a lot more patience nowadays though, and I hardly ever don't finish a book. (though admittedly I have downloaded a few free self published books that I just couldn't stomach)

kittycrayolas · Post by **kittycrayolas** » 24 May 2014, 22:26

I've only done this once. I was reading the book zipped in high school and for some reason stopped and I found it probably a year ago and finished it in one sitting. Typically when I read though I finish the book very quickly

Wolfsbane Creations · Post by **Wolfsbane Creations** » 26 May 2014, 08:24

Hunger Games, I didn't finish the book until after I saw the film

shakeitkatie · Post by **shakeitkatie** » 04 Feb 2015, 17:10

I have had a few books where I started reading them but couldn't get into them. Then years later, I would start them over again and it was almost like reading a different book. Sometimes you have to be in the right mindset to comprehend a book.

Lilapo9 · Post by **Lilapo9** » 04 Feb 2015, 20:11

Yes I have done that. It was "The Imitation of Christ" by Thomas Kempis and "Always We Begin Again: The Benedictine Way of Living" by John McQuistion II. I was just not ready to tackle them completely when I started them.

sschro12 · Post by **sschro12** » 04 Feb 2015, 20:56

Years? No. Months? Yes. But it took me awhile to figure out what was going on. I guess I don't have a very good memory...

ALynnPowers · Post by **ALynnPowers** » 07 Feb 2015, 08:43

I have read a couple of books that were really long and pretty interesting, but they were just heavy reading, and I couldn't read much at a time. I had to take lots of breaks and read other books in the meantime. In the end, it ended up taking me about a year to finish one book. With pretty regular reading. Just only a couple of pages at a time. I'm sure I forgot lots of details in the meantime, but I got the gist, and finally made it through.

CataclysmicKnight · Post by **CataclysmicKnight** » 07 Feb 2015, 10:10

I know I'll lose a LOT of geek cred for this one, which is the preferred currency in my land, but I'd have to say the Lord of the Rings books. I don't know what it is... I loved The Hobbit, but I've tried to read The Fellowship of the Ring a half dozen times or so, and just get hung up on the long intro. While this doesn't completely belong here, since I haven't actually finished it even now, I definitely attempted to read it years later (and then years later after that, and after that...).