The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion
what do u do if you start reading a book then realize you don't like it??
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I wear it like badge! I made it through a book I hated. I then hold it against the author for all times. Nothing like a Martyr complex. =P
I read it anyways, hoping for it to get better. I also do not think I can give a true review or opinion if I have not finished the book.
I try to force myself to finish it, and if it's always boring I set it aside and choose an other one
I try my hardest to push through and finish it. I just have to do it. The only book I've never finished was Catch 22. It peed me off SO MUCH.
I spent years finishing any book I started, but have decided my free time is too valuable to waste on something I'm not enjoying, so I've adopted a guide rule I heard about. Read 100 pages less your age. So if you are 24, read 76 before stopping, if you are 76 years old, only read 24 pages before deciding. It has been working for me so far.
Jennifer wrote: "I spent years finishing any book I started, but have decided my free time is too valuable to waste on something I'm not enjoying, so I've adopted a guide rule I heard about. Read 100 pages less yo..."LOOOL I like the idea :)
I spent years struggling through books I hated, because I thought I couldn't start another until I finished the one I started. Spent almost 3 years on "Tropic of Cancer", and got so annoyed I finally put it down. That was the beginning of a great reading adventure for me! Since then, I've read probably thousands of books, and still occasionally put one down.
If it's for book club, I try to slog through it. If not, I won't waste my time. Too many other things to do and books to read!
A book I read and wished I hadn't, was a book called,' A Child Called It'. It devastated me and stays with me even now.
Theresa wrote: "A book I read and wished I hadn't, was a book called,' A Child Called It'. It devastated me and stays with me even now."Because it was devastatingly good or bad?
I try to give it a hundred pages or 20/30% on ebooks. If I can find something redeemable (a secondary character or find it horribly great), then I just soldier on. This plan is always aborted whenever my maximum TSTL moment has been reached. At that point I could only have 10 pages left, but stop reading immediately anyway. This isn't limited to books, I've walked out of movies for the same reason before. I walked out of Titanic when that old lady did that dumb thing with the necklace. It was years before I realized how close the end actually was.
I try to power through a book as much as I can even if I dislike it. I have a habit of purchasing books before reading them, so most of the time I feel a slight twinge of guilt if I don't finish a book I bought. There are only a small handful of books where I actually stopped reading. Most of those times it was because the bookmark fell out of the book and I decided I couldn't really be bothered with searching around to find out where I left off.
If I seriously do not like anything about the book or it is totally different than what I expected or the writing is just poor, I stop reading it.Too many books, too little time.
The exceptions are:
If I said I would review it.
I said I would discuss it with other people.
Or if it seems like a good book, but I am just not in the mood for ir right now, I'll put it aside for a while. Sometimes that changes my whole perspective on the book and I end up loving it.
I stop reading it and move on. In my life as a blogger if its one I've been sent I send a polite email saying it wasnt for me. I don't then review it as unless I read every word I don't feel it would be fair to do so. Hence why most of my reviews tend to be higher * because life is too short and there are too many books to read to spend time on one you are not enjoying.
I usually force myself to read it, because I don't think I can make a proper review if I haven't finished it. Most of the times I just suffer all the way through them...
Unless necessity, common sense, or obligation justifies or mandates doing something I do not like doing, I don't. Reading a book meets none of those criteria.
Unless I absolutely hate if, I try to finish every book I start.
I usually give a book about 100 pages or 1/3 of the way through, whichever is less. If I don't hate it by that point, I keep going. If I do hate it, I put it down and walk away to the next book on my to-be-read list. Life is too short to force myself to read something I find terrible for no actual benefit.
Get rid of that ish. I aint triflin with no stale ass book!
Just finish it then when it's done and over with you can completely hate on it. Idk it's a thing I have that no matter what (almost (99% of the time) I will finish reading a book even if it is the worst book I've read ***cough cough Siddhartha cough cough***
I put it down after giving it two chances. I figure, even if I read everyday, nonstop...I still wouldn't get to all the books I want to read and have yet to read. Life is too short...start something else.
I usually finish them and suffer a lot :( but then I regret all the time I lost
I force myself to finish it if it's something I wanted to read for a while, part of a series, or by an author that I love (it usually pays off since it gets better later on in the book). Other than that, I kind of put the book I don't enjoy aside and try to reread it later
I put it down and I don't give it a rating in goodreads. I feel it unfair of me to judge it when I don't know the WHOLE story. So yeah, I give up on the book and hope that someday I'll give it a second chance. So far, only one book has done it so far - Black Silk by Judith Ivory. As for the others, they no longer have any hope. If I hate it, why bother finishing? I'll probably just end up annoyed anyway
I think for so long if I'm still going to continue reading it.
I generally give a book 50 to 100 pages before I ditch it. But then sometime later, I try reading it again since it might have been my mood or a hard time that saw me initially dislike the book.
I read around 2-3 chapters of a book, if it doesn't interest me or if I feel that I will never get hooked onto it, I leave it and move onto another one. However, it largely depends on my mood. Sometimes, books that don't interest me at one point in time, I have managed to finish after a gap of few months or so.However, if it fails to move me, even during the second attempt I simply forget that book and put it up as did not finish.
Leave it for a while, and come back to it. Sometimes jump to the last few chapters to see the end or dump it all together.
Sometimes, it's not that I don't like the book, I am just not in the mood for that type of book, so I leave my bookmark and sit in back on my shelf, and I'll go back to it later.However, sometimes I really just don't like a book. I have a shelf on here for books I didn't finish, so that I can perhaps try again later or remember not to pick it back up :-)
Forcing my way through a book would usually just make me miserable. I would stop reading because I dreaded picking the book back up, but I felt I needed to finish it. I've realized my time reading is too precious for that!
I read a book recently with an incredibly slow start. It felt like pulling teeth. My solution was to turn the kindle text-to-voice on and play it while making long drives. Eventually, maybe 50 pages in (of a 400 page or something book) I got to the GOOD PART. It was amazing from that point forward and I was glad I toughed it out.And then there's the crap books I can't make myself finish. I have quit a book while at the 80% mark because I finally admitted to myself that it wouldn't get better.
I just gave up yesterday on Shatter Me it moved to slow, and was too easy to read(no big words, very short sentences). It just annoyed me, I usually give a book 5-10 chapters, then if I can't get into I give up. Too many good books out there to waste time on bad ones.
I don't give up as often as I should. When I do I usually have been complaining about the book for several chapters. I have skimmed the last half of more than one book rather than give up completely.How fast I read a book is often a clue of my enjoyment level. I remember one last winter that came up due at the library because I had kept picking it up and putting it back down. I felt relieved that would have to return it. (Yes, I could have renewed it but conveniently choose to ignore the fact)
I hate giving up on books, but try to adhere to the 50-page rule as much as possible. If I really can't stand the book 50 pages in, I'll sell it or give it away and get something I actually like.There are, of course, exceptions to this. Sometimes it's just bad timing -- I tried reading Fahrenheit 451 two or three times as a teenager and hated it, then fell in love with it in college. It's my all-time favorite book. Another exception, albeit at the opposite end of the spectrum, is Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen: How One Girl Risked Her Marriage, Her Job, and Her Sanity to Master the Art of Living. I hated that book from the beginning, but felt I should finish it to see if it would have a redemptive ending (it doesn't). You kind of have to take these things on a case-by-case basis.
I tend to force myself to read the complete book now matter how boring it is. Even though i read sloppy then and forget parts of the storyline afterwards.
I realized a long time ago that if by the fourth chapter I would rather have my eyes gouged out than continue reading, its best to not waste my time on the remainder of the book.
force my self to finish it, then find a reason for me to keep avoiding those books
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If i don't like a book i try to force myself to read it. If it's severely unbearable then i put it down. Out of all the books i've read, only 2 i've put down.
I always finish my books, even if I don't like it. Maybe it's a bad approach, but I feel like I'm failing if I just skip a book because I don't like it. Although there might be a lot of hours completely wasted when I could have done better things.
sunshine1983 wrote: "I always finish my books, even if I don't like it. Maybe it's a bad approach, but I feel like I'm failing if I just skip a book because I don't like it. Although there might be a lot of hours compl..."I do the same, mainly because I want to know what happens LOL
Noelia wrote: "sunshine1983 wrote: "I always finish my books, even if I don't like it. Maybe it's a bad approach, but I feel like I'm failing if I just skip a book because I don't like it. Although there might be..."I know, there's always a chance that it gets better:)
I'm reading a book right now
and the beginning was terrible. I set it down for a few days until this morning. Now it's great. Timing really does come into play for me too.
There's only been one book that I've stopped reading in the middle (Stoner and the Spaz by Ronald Koertge) but generally I'll read 'till the end so I can have a full explanation of why I don't like the book when conversing with someone who likes it. Like with Stoner and the Spaz though, I found the grammar was my tipping point on a bad plot. If I don't like a book, I'll try and set it down, read another book, hype myself up for the book I didn't quite like the start of, get a good drink that makes me happy, and try again.
Surprisingly, I force myself to give the book a chance and finish it.
I'd probably give it a few chances, then I'd put it down if I still didn't like it.
I would still finish it even if it's extremely not to my liking. I usually find some reason to keep going with it. If I bought it I would feel like I owe it to myself and no matter what an author spent time to write this book so I feel I also owe it to them to complete the book and give it a fair and complete reaction to it.
I usually force myself to read it. Unless from the first chapter I am completely disinterested or the writing style is very juvenile and weak. But if I get a hundred pages into a book in most cases I have to finish it no matter how I feel about it.
I try to read more pages hoping that the story will eventually start getting more interesting, if not then I just stop altogether
The Perks Of Being A Book Addict
Books mentioned in this topic
Fahrenheit 451 (other topics)Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen (other topics)
Shatter Me (other topics)
Siddhartha (other topics)
The Black Dahlia (other topics)
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That rule only bit me once... I actually stopped Eye of the World for six months before I found out that three pages later everything became very exciting.