Nikan
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Post by Nikan on Sept 29, 2022 12:09:26 GMT
and give examples if you want to.
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 29, 2022 12:42:51 GMT
Um, it took me like 50 times to finish As I Lay Dying which describes me while I struggled to read it
Never finished - despite my best efforts - John Rechy's "cult classic" (whatever) City of Night .......
That's one of those books that people always say "you have to read it because it's "important"" - is it though?.....I think they just mean that "some important people liked it" which isn't really the same thing ....but let's say its important, ok........life really is too short.....
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Post by MsMovieStar on Sept 29, 2022 12:49:29 GMT
Oh honey, absolutely not. If someone has taken the laborious hard task of writing a book then I feel it's not too much to ask to be considerate and to read what they have to say... and that's why I aways make my assistant read them to the very end... Even if it doesn't look like I'm listening. I may be multi-tasking by catching up on my beauty sleep at the same time, (despite appearing like I've passed out after lunchtime drinks).
Obviously I can't read everything and I'm only interested in books that will advance me. I mean, I read Becoming Michele Obama in 2018 but then I had a strong letter from her lawyers insisting that I stop claiming to be her, signing checks in her name and saying I was her to get VIP stuff like free cars and state visits, so it was all a big waste of money and time. I won't be falling for her second book, The Light We Carry as I'm told my mobile phone already has an inbuilt torch. She's just a clever con woman, but as you can see I'm much smarter than her!
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Sept 29, 2022 14:27:45 GMT
I’m not wasting my time laboring through a book I’m not enjoying.
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Post by Martin Stett on Sept 29, 2022 14:29:55 GMT
A movie I don't enjoy is just a few hours. A book can take weeks or even months. Screw that. Same with television shows. You better hook me early, because I'm not sticking around for three seasons or two hundred pages for things to "get good."
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Post by SZilla on Sept 29, 2022 14:56:47 GMT
I'm usually a completionist, which occasionally means I'm a glutton for punishment. I guess it depends on the length of the book though. Just recently a friend had recommended me Neuromancer by William Gibson and I couldn't get into it, but I felt obligated (especially since a friend had loaned it to me) and finished it - which only confirmed my dislike of the book.
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Post by avnermoriarti on Sept 29, 2022 15:36:08 GMT
May be sacrilege and an indicator that some other spectrum is ruling my life ( because of the "time is a precious commodity" has become my mantra ) and I may need to rebel myself in that regard but I just can't devote time to a book I know I'm not interested anymore and contrary to music or movies, the style can turn me off to the point of simply abort the mission ( same goes to TV Series, which I have far, far less tolerance ), worth mentioning I wasn't that way 5 years ago. Is not always the same situation, a couple of examples, Proust and Search of Lost Time, read two of them until I felt I need to turn at least 40 to fully invest myself in its odyssey. And just a few weeks ago Oates' Blonde, 300 pages was enough, it was intriguing at first but quickly reveals all its tricks and over the couse of those pages never became more than one note.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Sept 29, 2022 16:04:42 GMT
If I'm halfway through something and am already committed, I'll keep going. But if I have a taste at 60-90 minutes and not liking what I'm hearing, I DNF with zero guilt. Life is short and there are hundreds of books to read listen to.
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Post by DeepArcher on Sept 29, 2022 16:38:59 GMT
I’m a compulsive completionist so I basically never do this, though I really wish I could. Same with movies.
It’s only just recently that I’ve even gotten into the habit of completely dropping TV shows that feel like a waste of time right out the gate. Sorry, For All Mankind!
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Post by Brother Fease on Sept 29, 2022 19:22:36 GMT
I will stop reading if i cannot stand another minute or not feeling the vibe. My time is valuable.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Sept 29, 2022 22:48:25 GMT
I think I’ve only deliberately bailed a couple times (most recently with an Indiana Jones novel that I tried reading last year), but I’m pretty selective about what I choose to read since it’s a bigger time commitment than watching a movie, so it’s extremely rare that I’m not invested in whatever I’m reading. When I was younger, what would happen more often is me not finishing a book because I got too busy or something, and so much time went by without picking it up that I would forget what I read, and I just didn’t feel like going back and rereading, so the book would just get forgotten about. It’s not that I wasn’t enjoying it... life just got in the way for some reason. This has happened with Moby Dick, Robinson Crusoe, This Side of Paradise, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King... books that I still haven't finished to this day. But that was in like middle school, and now I almost always finish books that I start.
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Post by ingmarhepburn on Sept 29, 2022 23:03:13 GMT
I try not to, but it has happened a few times. The first examples I can think of are The Divine Comedy and For Whom the Bell Tolls.
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