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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2023 18:44:08 GMT
I almost never do. But it’s such a waste of time to force yourself to read something that bores you. I’m doing it now because it’s book #2 in a trilogy and I’m curious about the resolution. Also, I paid for the book so it would feel like a waste of money to not read it.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jan 18, 2023 18:57:04 GMT
Almost never.
I prefer to finish things i have started, the last book i quit was Don Quixote about 3-4 years ago
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Jan 18, 2023 20:37:34 GMT
Rarely.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Jan 18, 2023 20:53:54 GMT
The only reason for Admiral Ackbar to quit a book would be if he realized it was a trap.  I read "The Shining" halfway through and never read any more. It's been so many years that I'd have to start over from the beginning. Otherwise I'm pretty good about finishing books after I start them. |
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Jan 18, 2023 21:35:10 GMT
Four times in the 50-odd books I've read in the past three years.
Yes, I keep track. Not specifically of the books I quit, but of the books I own and the ones I read, with start and end date.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jan 18, 2023 23:17:25 GMT
Most of the time. My concentration is shit.
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Post by llanwydd on Jan 19, 2023 1:58:46 GMT
I got halfway through Moby Dick and some years later I got halfway through The Return of the King. Does not happen often.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Jan 19, 2023 6:33:01 GMT
Rarely. I often feel the need to finish once I started, even if I'm not really enjoying the book. It has happened a handful of times, though. One such time qas with Moby Dick, though I did eventually go back and finish it a few years later.
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Jan 19, 2023 11:33:54 GMT
If I quit a book, I usually read the last chapter to see how it ends, I'm bad, I often get impatient and even read the final chapter before I finish reading a book I'm enjoying (usually by the 4th chapter), it doesn't spoil the book for me.
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Post by theravenking on Jan 19, 2023 11:55:13 GMT
It tends to happen more often with e-books. With a physical copy I have more of an urge to finish the story if I have the book lying there, its cover staring at me accusingly, I tend to make more of an effort to get to the end. With an e-book it only takes one click to make the text disappear, in fact I would say I only finish about 70-80 per cent of the e-books I start.
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Post by Zos on Jan 19, 2023 16:42:42 GMT
I used to have a thing that I had to finish a book once started, it was a sign of failure otherwise. Since I hit my 60's though I've decided life's too short to waste it on sub standard stuff when there's so much to get through so now if it doesn't grab me by a quarter way in I give it the heave ho.
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Post by Zos on Jan 19, 2023 16:44:50 GMT
It tends to happen more often with e-books. With a physical copy I have more of an urge to finish the story if I have the book lying there, its cover staring at me accusingly, I tend to make more of an effort to get to the end. With an e-book it only takes one click to make the text disappear, in fact I would say I only finish about 70-80 per cent of the e-books I start. I always do better research if I'm buying a physical copy so no I will like it more, e-books I take more of a chance so give up easier. |
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Post by paulslaugh on Jan 19, 2023 17:37:40 GMT
Fiction books, about two-thirds of them. I get a lot of the free kindle unlimited books, so I check out titles that interest me for a chapter or two.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Jan 19, 2023 18:06:42 GMT
It's very rare when I quit on a book. One that does come to mind is Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco; just couldn't get into it.
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Post by novastar6 on Jan 19, 2023 20:49:15 GMT
Not often.
I remember reading Lord of the Flies and having NO idea what they were even talking about but I wanted to finish it, so I did.
Meanwhile I've been 500 pages in on The Stand for about 10 years, always mean to get back to it but just haven't yet.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Jan 19, 2023 21:40:40 GMT
I used to have a thing that I had to finish a book once started, it was a sign of failure otherwise. Since I hit my 60's though I've decided life's too short to waste it on sub standard stuff when there's so much to get through so now if it doesn't grab me by a quarter way in I give it the heave ho. That is pretty much what happened to me too (although I am still a few years short of 60). I can tell you what book made me see the light. It was John Irving's "Hotel New Hampshire". I have read and greatly enjoyed a number of his books, but this one I was really struggling with. I was advancing at a snail's pace and not enjoying it at all. Then one day I just thought "why am I doing this? I don't HAVE to finish this book". So I stopped, and it was like a weight was lifted from my shoulders.
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Post by politicidal on Jan 19, 2023 22:29:28 GMT
Not very often.
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Post by gw on Jan 20, 2023 2:53:30 GMT
I'm extremely picky so I quit books much more often than I finish them.
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Post by mmexis on Feb 16, 2023 2:41:24 GMT
Not as often as I should. Have started doing that more often now. So many books, so little time, so long a list and I'm not as young as I used to be.
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Post by msdemos on Feb 18, 2023 20:28:14 GMT
For better or worse, if I start a book, I finish it. Usually that's not a problem, but I have run into a couple of books that were just DOGS to get through, but was ALWAYS bound and determined to finish them, and ALWAYS did. The most recent example was this one:  Having read a couple of the books that Richard Feynman wrote himself, and enjoying them IMMENSELY, I then assumed I'd get a lot out of reading his complete biography, and chose the above by James Gleick. To this day, I'm not quite sure what it was about that book, which was a perfectly fine bio, but for the life of me, and for whatever reason, I could just NOT get through it !! Eventually I started taking it with me to work every day, and would stop for a soda at McD's afterwards, and read at least a few pages, or a chapter every day......but it just seemed to go on FOREVER and EVER! And, by the end, even though I was running my eyes over every word on every page, I realized I was taking in almost NONE of it. Just doing anything and EVERYTHING I could to get through and finish it......which I finally did, MANY months later! But to say it was a struggle, would be a MAJOR understatement !! And to this day, if I were to pick it up and randomly read a few sentences or a paragraph from it, I'm sure I'd remember absolutely NONE of it.....   SAVE FERRIS |
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