The Goldfinch

I stopped listening to this almost 2/3 of the way in. It was making me too anxious.
Theo's choices and the path he was taking were too stressful to me.

Unlike some criticism I've read while trying to find out how the book finished, I don't think clichéd writing was a problem in this book. In a lengthy novel not everything can be inventive. There were, in fact, many times when a turn of phrase would be so creative and apt that I was astounded by the effect.