If you start a book but don't like it. . .
By amaleigh73
@amaleigh73 (499)
United States
August 15, 2007 8:06am CST
do you finish it anyway? Our local library recently moved closer to our house so I started taking the children every week to check out books this summer. I have been getting some for myself also. I have checked out a few books, that when I started reading them, I haven't liked them. Sometimes it is the style of writing, sometimes the story seems boring or I am just not into the story line. I love to read and when I find a good book, I usually read it within 2 days (at the most). I have tried thinking/hoping it will get better, but sometimes I just give up. If you get a book like that, do you stick with it?
8 responses
@KrisNY (7590)
• United States
15 Sep 07
Not usually – if the book isn’t a good one or doesn’t catch my interest- I’ll toss it down and find something else- If it’s a book I own- I usually put it back into the pile to read- figuring someday it might peak my interest. Or if I run out of things to read- If I borrowed it from someone- I always just give it right back!
@KrisNY (7590)
• United States
11 Sep 07
Not usually – if the book isn’t a good one or doesn’t catch my interest- I’ll toss it down and find something else- If it’s a book I own- I usually put it back into the pile to read- figuring someday it might peak my interest. Or if I run out of things to read- If I borrowed it from someone- I always just give it right back!
@monicazhang (802)
• China
12 Sep 07
I would not finish it if I found it is not my taste.I thought time is precious and I would rather do something more meaningful.I dont want to waste my time anyway.
@lonewolfakela (13)
• Romania
17 Aug 07
If you start a book and you don't like it, it will be a torture for you to finish it, specialy if the book is a long one.But there are some reasons you should keep reading.For example, I started a book and it became interesting only after I read aproximately 100 pages.And it started to be a good one after all
@3lilangels (4639)
• United States
15 Aug 07
well sometimes i have gotten a book and it was so boring,i couldnt wait to finish it,at some points i really want to just drop it down and read a different one but then i say well i wonder how the story ends and what happens next,so i finish it any way.
@Malyck (3425)
• Australia
15 Aug 07
Ah, the age old book-lover's predicament!
Possibly the worst thing that can happen, besides a great book ending too quickly is a book being boring and the decision-making on whether or not to give it the benefit of the doubt and carry on.
I've found that, in order to not feel like too much of a book snob, I have to read at least a quarter before casting it aside.
If it seems to have a glimmer of hope, half way is my limit.
=]
I think that in the right circumstance, turfing the boring read is acceptable, and not at all punishable.
