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PrintableMuse2NoPharaoh said: Quiter!
 well, I AM the quiet nasty! | |
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There are certain books I feel I have to finish, so I work my way through those. But if it's a book I'm reading for supposed pleasure, then I follow the Nancy Pearl Rule: A book gets a hundred pages minus your age. If you're not enjoying it when you reach that point, you're free to give up on it.
(In case you don't know her, Nancy Pearl is the author of Book Lust and the inspiration for the Shushing Librarian action figure.)  | |
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Empress said: I rarely abandon a book, but I have on a few occasions. I read 40-50 books a year and the last one I abandoned was James Frey "A Million Little Pieces". Once I learned it was mostly bullshit I couldn't ready any further.
I made it through a Suitable Boy and it was worth it. I'm like you. I read 'War and Peace,' to say that I read it and that was a STRUGGLE! I can't recommend it to anyone, but I can say I've read it. I don't want you to think like me. I just want you to think. |
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Empress said: I rarely abandon a book, but I have on a few occasions. I read 40-50 books a year and the last one I abandoned was James Frey "A Million Little Pieces". Once I learned it was mostly bullshit I couldn't ready any further.
I made it through a Suitable Boy and it was worth it. wow  unlucky7 reincarnated | |
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shushing action 
I'll often read up to 3/4 of a book, so I'm sure it's fair to abandon it by then  | |
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SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said: Lammastide said: I've done this my entire life, Zombie. After 37 years, I could likely still count on one hand the number of books I've read from cover to cover. I just don't have the attention span or linear thought. I happen to retreat and return, jumping around and reading bits and pieces out of order until I've taken in the whole story in some odd combination.
[Edited 8/24/09 15:49pm] this I cannot believe 
Wow! The first time I read Stephen King's "The Stand", I did it in 2 days. The book is over 1,000 pages  I didn't like 'The Stand,' but I made myself read it. I've read 'The Hobbit' cover to cover in a day. Did it the first time in the fifth grade. I don't want you to think like me. I just want you to think. |
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Efan said: There are certain books I feel I have to finish, so I work my way through those. But if it's a book I'm reading for supposed pleasure, then I follow the Nancy Pearl Rule: A book gets a hundred pages minus your age. If you're not enjoying it when you reach that point, you're free to give up on it.
(In case you don't know her, Nancy Pearl is the author of Book Lust and the inspiration for the Shushing Librarian action figure.) If I don't bail before the first hundred pages . . .I'll make myself finish it. I usually pick great reads though. I don't want you to think like me. I just want you to think. |
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peacenlovealways said: Empress said: I rarely abandon a book, but I have on a few occasions. I read 40-50 books a year and the last one I abandoned was James Frey "A Million Little Pieces". Once I learned it was mostly bullshit I couldn't ready any further.
I made it through a Suitable Boy and it was worth it. wow What are you WOW'ing about? That's not even one a week. That's about right actually. I don't think I'll hit 20 this year so I'm somewhat off the pace, but I remember reading twice that many in a year . . . I don't want you to think like me. I just want you to think. |
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I count a secret:
>I don't read a whole book there is more than 3 years >I thought that it went of the glasses, but not! >I was fed up with books I don't have patience to read; but I am well like this I made my library in the pantry of the house formerly i ate books I have everything very arranged, classified, for alphabetical order I just want to forget what i read and to write my history >I think it's that! | |
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Muse2NoPharaoh said: Anxiety said: i often run out of steam halfway through a book, usually realizing that if i'd just pick something else to read, i'd probably be reading more often than i am. this summer i've been making myself finish books i've abandoned in the past. i just recently finished a book i started 11 years ago.
 Was it worth it though? ummmm, well, the book was a gift someone gave me 11 years ago, so at the very least i feel a little less guilty for not having finished it. | |
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ZombieKitten said: I never used to do that, now I'll be doing that to sometimes 3 books I've got on the go, at a time. There's no stigma attached to not finishing a meal if you start it and don't like it, or you'd even be forgiven for walking out on a crappy movie, but heavens, not finish a book?
 what's WRONG with me!
Is that bad? (I never managed to even START "A Suitable Boy" never mind finishing it - though I'm about to read Wally Lamb's "I know this much is true" AGAIN) Wally Lamb!!  Have you read his new one "The Hour I First Believed"? | |
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SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said: Lammastide said: I've done this my entire life, Zombie. After 37 years, I could likely still count on one hand the number of books I've read from cover to cover. I just don't have the attention span or linear thought. I happen to retreat and return, jumping around and reading bits and pieces out of order until I've taken in the whole story in some odd combination.
[Edited 8/24/09 15:49pm] this I cannot believe
Wow! The first time I read Stephen King's "The Stand", I did it in 2 days. The book is over 1,000 pages me too, supa | |
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