{"id":1419327,"date":"2019-12-29T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T15:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/?p=1419327"},"modified":"2020-12-11T13:45:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T18:45:33","slug":"8-popular-books-that-most-people-never-actually-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/8-popular-books-that-most-people-never-actually-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Famous Books No One Ever Finishes Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/mobydickchrishemsworth_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Picking up a book. Reading it. <em>Finishing it<\/em>. Doesn&#8217;t that sound nice? Of course it does! But in this day and age, who has that kind of time? I used to force myself to finish every book I started, even if I hated it. However, now that I&#8217;m older and wiser and the human race is hurtling towards oblivion, I&#8217;ve given myself permission to stop reading books that bring me nothing but hair-pulling misery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I&#8217;m not the only one. Through extensive research (I perused reviews on Barnes &amp; Noble, Amazon, and Goodreads, and also I asked people), I&#8217;ve concluded that the following eight classic books are the books most people are least likely to finish once they start&#8230; if, indeed, they finish at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picking up a book. Reading it. Finishing it. Doesn&#8217;t that sound nice? Of course it does! But in this day and age, who has that kind of time? I used to force myself to finish   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[628,6942,5790,3329,25017],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419327"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419327"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1445696,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419327\/revisions\/1445696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}