When do you drop a book?

[Chana]

I stop reading a book if I feel that the ideas may disturb me. I have stopped reading Dean Koontz (I can't remember which book but it starts with gruesome murders) and I stopped reading a weird cookbook in which the author explores such things as fingernail clippings as possible food. I really try to finish a book if I am not utterly repelled.

[Terri]

I am compulsive abotu finishing books. I may put them aside for a while but I always finish them

[Jim]

I just put aside INHERENT VICE by Pynchon
I didn't think it was a serious attempt at mystery writing
I put more books down now than I used to
just too many good books to read to continue to read one that I don't enjoy or am not learning from

[Lilia]

I personally believe that there is a special time to read a book, and if I read it when it's not the right time then I won't enjoy it. Doesn't matter how many pages I've read (though usually less than 50), if I loose interest than I just put it away knowing that one day I'll return to it.

[Gail]

Luna wrote: "I personally believe that there is a special time to read a book, and if I read it when it's not the right time then I won't enjoy it. Doesn't matter how many pages I've read (though usually less..."

same here, Luna. Sometimes I just keep losing interest and just for get it.I usually go 50-100 pages

[Anna]

I dropped Twilight series after reading like 100 pages of each volume. I just couldn't read it. I know that many people (especially emo teenagers) love Stepanie Meyer's books, but I just ........ I thought it would be far more better than a story about egoistic teenage girl, the vampire family and the good werewolves.

[Lori]

Gail wrote: "Luna wrote: "I personally believe that there is a special time to read a book, and if I read it when it's not the right time then I won't enjoy it. Doesn't matter how many pages I've read (though..."

I agree. I recently had to stop right in the middle of re-reading a historical fiction series ("Outlander") to read some chick-lit for a book club. I ended up chucking the book after briefly skimming. Just the totally wrong time -- very jarring to go from my favorite books set in the 1700's to picking out Jimmy Choo's in NYC.

[Anna]

Sometimes happened that a friend or an acquaintance recommends me a book and when I start to read it, it appeares that it was far from my and his/hers expectations/views on that book.

[Lilia]

Lori wrote: "Gail wrote: "Luna wrote: "I personally believe that there is a special time to read a book, and if I read it when it's not the right time then I won't enjoy it. Doesn't matter how many pages I've..."

Funny (or not) how I make this comment in the forum and now it's happening... when I started reading The Secret of Lost Things A Novel it was the right book, but then I got very involved and motivated by my dutch homework, that when I tried to come back to the book the right moment passed!

[Christy]

If a book can't make me laugh by page 30, I usually toss it.

That being said, I confess most things make me laugh.

[Anna]

Today I dropped Built to Serve Leading a Sustainable, Culture-Driven, People-Centered Organization by Dan J. Sanders, cause it was centred on author himself and on his company that I just wasn't able to finish the book. And many American solutions are hard to transmit to Polish companies in strictly same way as in USA.

[K.G.]

I remember reading a book by a well known author from cover to cover just to see what the big whoop was. I kept waiting for it to get good, in my opinion it never did. From that point onward, I never finished a book that didn't offer me some form of entertainment or education. There is a lot of good reading on the shelves to waste time on blah.

[Jim]

Jim wrote: "I just put aside INHERENT VICE by Pynchon
I didn't think it was a serious attempt at mystery writing
I put more books down now than I used to
just too many good books to read to continue to read..."

Jim,
I put down Inherent Vice too. I wasn't disappointed in the mystery aspect just didn't think the writing was too compelling didn't make me want to go on.

Jim

[Jim]

Kgcummings wrote: "I remember reading a book by a well known author from cover to cover just to see what the big whoop was. I kept waiting for it to get good, in my opinion it never did. From that point onward, I n..."

The DaVinci Code, right?

[K.G.]

Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver... still wondering what the big whoop was that it was on a college required reading list?????