Does this ever happen to you while reading?

Yes I do that sometimes. I thought I would like the latest Ken follet book, but after reading about 400 of the thousand pages I had to give it up. It just wasnt going to work for me. I did read the last fifty pages though because i wanted to see how the book ended. I think I read the highlights of the book. It was decent.

Maybe you haven't found an author you really like, yet. I'm for example infatuated with Stephen King and I really like John Irving. Now, both of them have written a bad novel or two (they are still human), but I can almost be certain when picking up a title by either of them that I am going to like it. It fact, I have read many of their books two or three times. But you're right, getting to know a new author, i.e. beginning to like a new book is very difficult for me, too. I'm obviously referring to novels here exclusively. It is an altogether different subject when reading about a topic I like, personal development, for example. There it is less a question of style but of content, and I have 'read myself into' many of them. So which is it for you, topic or author?

Once I've begun a book, I find it really hard to put it down without finishing it, even if it's lousy. Somehow, I figure it will get better or it wouldn't have gotten published. I haven't been wrong often, but those books have been REALLY bad!

I read mostly history and other educational books, and I have a bunch that I haven't read so when I start reading one that I can't seem to get into at the time, I pick out another one to read and come back to the other one later. But I have had that happen with novels a couple times. I have L. Ron Hubbard's book Battlefield Earth, and I've tried reading it 2 or 3 times but just lose interest because it's so long and boring. I've come to the conclusion that I'll never finish it.

Try this book "The three mistskes of my life" by Chetan Bhagat. You will find it intresting and I m sure it makes u read all the book.

uhm, yes. usually with any self-help or nonfiction book. although there are some that i finish without a problem. also with Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. i know a lot of people love this book and it's one of the greatest pieces of literature ever written and all. but i read through the first few chapters and get affected and adapt Rasholnikov's depression and i can't get past the fourth chapter. i just get lost in my own thoughts or end up staring at my ceiling in bed thinking of nothing... i have tried reading it again a few months back and it's the same thing.

Even a bad book can suck me in. I have this belief that it is going to get better. If it doesn't I get really ticked off at myself for buying the book. The same goes for a movie except I don't get mad at myself for renting it or going to see it; I get mad at the people who made it because I think they should know better and it makes me think they don't care about their viewers just what ever money they can get from it. I dont' know why I don't feel this way about the authors.Do you ever feel that way after seeing a movie?

Once I start reading a book. No one can stop me. I try to finish the whole book all in one sitting. But it really depends on how interesting the book is. Happy postings. HUGZ!

IT IS SAME TO ME :D. I ASKED MY MOM WHY IT HAPPENED SO? SHE SAID THAT WE SHOULD BE CAREFUL IN SELECTING A TOPIC. WE SHOULD READ A BOOK WHICH TO RELATED TO THE TOPIC WE LIKE FROM, r011aka

Yup I skip some chapters in a book too especially if it is boring either I fall asleep from reading it or I just put it down and turn on the tv instead. Then the next I would read it I really just skip it because I don't want to get bored and it is the main reason why I read.

i have to say that I rarely put a book down and never read it again unless it is shockingly bad!! I have on a few occasions gone back to a book I wasn't enjoying a few months down the line and found it ok. i think it does depend what type of nood you are in as to what type of book you want to read. i find james patterson books excellent and have finished all of his so I agree that I think you just haven't found the right author or type of novel you enjoy yet

well I read all the books that I buy whether they are interesting or not. all the books have something in them that sets you thinking . For that sake I finish all the books that I buy or can lay my hands on .

This has happened to me twice. I gave away one book because I didn't think I would ever finish it. The other book is still sitting on top of my pile waiting to be read at least 5 years now. LOL. I should really just give it away. I have a hard time finding time to read these days because I'm a stay-at-home mom with an active little toddler.

When I choose a book to read, there's an interest sparked by something--something I've heard about the book or something on the book's cover that catches my eye, something. Therefore I'm always reading to fuel that spark of interest and generally voraciously read it all. If a book doesn't 'grab' me, I persevere in hope lol. But there have been a few fall by the wayside--not that I can recall what they were! Reading is an immense joy for me,I inhale books and magazines! ~~