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What book is everyone NOT reading right now

Hold on while I get the asbestos suit....there.

Anything by Terry Pratchett. Many, many people have told me that they're wonderful, they're witty, and I just have to read them. I've tried, more than once. I find his works just too cute for my taste. Oddly, I can listen to Pratchett audio books.

Rowling, IMHO, would have been a much better writer if she had not become a phenomenon when she did. Her first book is nothing special, but she was actually working on plot and character development in 2 and 3. Then she became famous, and the writing slipped.
 
"Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying"

also not reading Rarnaby Budge, et al.

More seriously, I am not reading the large pile of Trudeau and Brown books that my partner's late grandfather left behind when he passed. I am not sure he read them, for that matter, but they are destined now to forever prop up the short leg of whatever needs propping up around our place, as they certainly are not of any use as reading materiel.

eta - More in the spirit of the thread, I am not reading Dawkins, Hitchens or Harris, specifically I am not reading "The God Delusion" and so forth. I don't have any problems with them (aside from Hitchens, who is a thuggish bore) but there is only so much time available for reading, and books telling me things I already know are way down on the priority list.
 
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I'm not reading the copy of Gravity's Rainbow that's been on my car's floorboard for a month. I got about 30 pages in, and decided a synopsis might be more enjoyable.
 
lionking said:
As I have mentioned in other threads wildy, you are depriving yourself of probably Australia's greatest living author. And just because one of his books was required reading at your school.;)
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It wasn't because one of his books was required reading at school, it was because the book was crap.

There is a rather big difference there.
 
For me also, most of the Harry Potter books. I read the first three, and thought they were innoffensive and mildly entertaining--the type of book you read once and then never think about again. Then Half-blood Prince came out, and I contemplated reading seven-hundred pages of that stuff, and decided to hell with that--if I'm going to devote that sort of time to something, it had better have a lot more going for it than Harry Potter.

Also the Bible. I tried reading it because everybody is always going on about how even if you're not a Christian, it's a great work of literature. No, it isn't.
 
kbm99 said:
"Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying"

also not reading Rarnaby Budge, et al.

More seriously, I am not reading the large pile of Trudeau and Brown books that my partner's late grandfather left behind when he passed. I am not sure he read them, for that matter, but they are destined now to forever prop up the short leg of whatever needs propping up around our place, as they certainly are not of any use as reading materiel.

eta - More in the spirit of the thread, I am not reading Dawkins, Hitchens or Harris, specifically I am not reading "The God Delusion" and so forth. I don't have any problems with them (aside from Hitchens, who is a thuggish bore) but there is only so much time available for reading, and books telling me things I already know are way down on the priority list.
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Well spoken.
 
I'm currently not reading Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard. After I finish not reading that, I plan to not read Natural Cures “They” Don't Want You To Know About by Kevin Trudeau.
 
I am pretty much always not reading L. Ron Hubbard, conspiracy crap, bibble (read at it long ago, covered my need for the data), dialectical critique of film (I consider these and some others crapping on paper.)
 
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