Which book will you not read again?

Well, the last book I read was 10 years ago. Needless to say, I do not plan to read any of them again.

The wife’s book of recipies, in common with her cooking…she burnt it.

Atlas Shrugged.

Alternatively, the Labour manifesto from 1997 onwards.

@the100thmonkey You should check out the Objectivist Harry Potter series. It’s hilarious.

For me, probably Naked Lunch. I get why it was grounbreaking and original and everything, but for me it’s in the same category of things as Duchamp’s urinal.

Interesting that everyone is taking it literally. I am also curious to hear if there are parts of your life you won’t revisit.

The books I like I enjoy more on a second reading but with most once is enough. There is nothing in my life I avoid in memory but I wouldn’t want to live it all again, even the good times.

I won’t listen to country music ever again. It reminds me of my ex husband and our time together. It makes me sad.

The Turner Diaries.

I like apocalyptic fiction, but it’s just too full of hate and twisted ideology.

The Road. Read it once and it broke my heart. I havent seen the movie even though its one of my favourite actors because i just don’t want to experience that story again.

Billie Jean King : My Story
She doesn’t half babble on, like a stuck record.

@downtide Agreed, and I haven’t seen the movie for the same reason. Viggo Mortensen is the PERFECT person for that role, though.

Litterally:
My old textbooks.
The highschool’s parting wish note (too many lies in it)

Figurately:
My highschool story (freaky traumatizing)

My first marriage. I was listening to some music I hadn’t listened to for years. I hadn’t consciously avoided the music, I just hadn’t played it. I had reason to listen to it recently and it took me right back to that time. It made me very sad. I was actually lying in bed with my now husband listening to this music and I started crying. It felt very odd to be crying and I couldn’t really explain why it was upsetting me so much. I think, and this is how I explained my sadness to my husband, I was crying not because I still love my ex, but because of the loss of the hope and faith we had in each other then and how far from there we are now. I’m actually a billion times happier now than I was then. My husband now is truly perfect for me, but still, my ex and I had children and a belief in the future that turned out to be unachievable. Still, I would never want to read that book again.

@downtide and @Haleth – I started watching the movie and while it was beautifully made, it was just too bleak. I couldn’t finish it.

Ivanhoe. As a child, the abridged version fascinated me and I loved cinematic renditions of it. Then I read the unabridged version and I struggled to stay awake.

On the flipside, the Count of Monte Cristo (abridged) bored me as a child but when I got around to reading it unabridged in high school, I destroyed the book’s spine by reading it over and over and over again. not the first book I did that to nor the last

A Course on Miracles. It was too much for me.

I rarely re-read books. This pisses my wife off something terribly because I have a library full of books, most of which are read and will never be read again, at least not by me.

great song
i’d stay away from Nabokov and Dostoyevsky

Catch 22 – for the same reason veterans of combat must suffer so much over years. I could not handle the total lack of timeline.

In my life also Catch 22, as I have met with several such moments when something cannot be achieved because it requires the outcome to precede the endeavor.

High school.

Oh, @Here2_4 I thought Catch 22 was great!

Of course I also enjoyed the movie Pulp Fiction because it ran backwards so what do I know.