I keep starting to read books then not finishing them. I amassed quite a stack of them over the years. Here they all are. From top to bottom:

Will Self: The Book of Dave. Bought: last week at the station to read on the train. Still going on this one.

Tony Hawks: One Hit Wonderland. Kinda ran out of steam about 3/4 of the way through. I was enjoying it, should be easy to finish.

Carl Sagan: The Demon-Haunted World. Recommended by someone else. Read a couple of pages. Might be a tough one, might be just my thing.

Ewan McGregor: Lond Way Round. I should love this. Don’t know why I can’t get into it.

Richard Dawkins: Climbing Mount Improbable. A christmas pressie. Read the first chapter. Yes, I get it, the difference between true design and things that just look designed. GET ON WITH IT! I’ve also to finish Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene... dunno where it’s gone, so it’s not in the pic!

Richard Dawkins (Again): The Ancestors Tale. An other christmas pressie, and a big fat book. I was loving this one, needed a break tho. A big ‘wow!’ about the whales!

Erich Von Daniken: Chariots of the Gods. I was fascinated by this book as a child of the 1970s. When I saw it recently in a holiday cottage, I picked it up and started reading. Had to buy my own copy (used) after the holiday to finish it. Somehow couldn’t get back into the spirit of it again. It’s a little, er, far fetched.

Jack Kerouac: On the Road: One of those things I thought I should read, then I heard someone on the radio say you should never read this when you’re 38. I was 38 at the time and promptly stopped reading. Stoopid radio. Maybe it’s OK when you’re 42!

Ivan Hodge: For Love and a Beetle: The charming tale of an elderly couple retracing a route they took to drive their brand new ‘61 VW home from London to New Zealand. In the same VW! Yep another country, Beetle still going... nice but... I dunno. Something else came along. Should give it another chance.

Charles Darwin: The Origin Of Species. As an atheist, this is kinda my Old Testament. I read a couple of pages but it’s heavy going 19th century stuff. Great for scaring the Jehovah’s away. Dawkins (New Testament) is much easier to read.

Robert M. Pirsig: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: Another ‘must read’ that turned into a must finish one day. There are actually some wonderful motorcycle bits in it... Got a lot further into this than Long Way Round.

I'll make an attempt to finish them all this year and not start a new book, not even 'the God Delusion' before I have!