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Books I Quit Reading in 2015
Jm
Jun 07, 2015 03:44PM
In the past I struggled to finish every book I started reading, and feeling guilty if I never quite got back around to finishing up those books. This year, I have decided that there is nothing to feel guilty about in not finishing a book. In fact, it is probably better in the long run if I do not finish books that I don’t like. I can avoid the weeks of listlessness that come from trudging through a literary desert. No longer will I have the apprehension that I might not like the next book I pick up either, and so just avoid reading all together.
This year, I have stopped reading (so far, and this does not include samples on my Kindle):
• Black by Christopher Whitcomb
• Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw
• (R)evolution (Phoenix Horizon Book One) by P J Manney
• The Settlers (Book One of the Movement Trilogy) by Jason Gurley
• The Colony by John Davis
• The Second Oldest Profession by D.W. Ulsterman
• One Click: Jeff Bezos And the Rise of Amazon by Richard L Brandt
What books have you stopped reading (whatever the reason)? I do not think that it is fair to rate a book without having finished it. Do you? Do you think Goodreads should add in an “I did not finish this book” option to the ratings system?
This year, I have stopped reading (so far, and this does not include samples on my Kindle):
• Black by Christopher Whitcomb
• Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw
• (R)evolution (Phoenix Horizon Book One) by P J Manney
• The Settlers (Book One of the Movement Trilogy) by Jason Gurley
• The Colony by John Davis
• The Second Oldest Profession by D.W. Ulsterman
• One Click: Jeff Bezos And the Rise of Amazon by Richard L Brandt
What books have you stopped reading (whatever the reason)? I do not think that it is fair to rate a book without having finished it. Do you? Do you think Goodreads should add in an “I did not finish this book” option to the ratings system?
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If you read far enough into a book to rate it, then you can rate it. How far is up to you. I give it a third of the way in. (It's my arbitrary rating system.) If I dump the book less than that I won't rate it, but I still might review what I'd read so far.
I mark my unfinished books by calling them books I didn't finish. Pretty straightforward.
Life is too short to finish a book that just isn't doing it for you.
I mark my unfinished books by calling them books I didn't finish. Pretty straightforward.
Life is too short to finish a book that just isn't doing it for you.
I read this book to the end and wish I hadn't. My goal going forward is to finish fewer terrible books!
The books you don't want to finish are usually great for reviewing. The books I usually give up on are fantasy based. Most recently The Goblin Emperor and I knew almost immediately that I was not going to like it. I don't even think I read 50 pages.
(R)evolution was just good enough that I thought it was going to get better for long enough that I thought that I might as well finish it. It did not get better, it got worse.
(R)evolution was just good enough that I thought it was going to get better for long enough that I thought that I might as well finish it. It did not get better, it got worse.
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