Does anyone not finish a book they are not feeling

[Myron]

When I am not enjoying a book I am reading I give up on it. I recently started reading Black Water Rising by Attica Locke but I didn't care enough about the characters and the plot to continue so I stopped. Why spend my time reading a book I'm not enjoying when I could spend the time reading something else to my liking.

Does anyone else leave a book uncompleted if they are not feeling it?

[kara]

If I am only a lttle way into it, I can walk away. But more than that .. I finish it.

I absolutely started to hate Prep (curtis sittenfeld (sp?)) but I felt like I had to finish it .. my friend and I split a flat in paris for our vacation and we were each reading books on our beds, and I was yelling at mine... and then threw it in the garbage the minute I finished it.

but I couldn't not finish...

[ngeso]

I do it all the time.

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[DOTSmusic]

every now and again.
i try not to, but sometimes i do feel it would be time better spent if i just quit reading it and move on to another book.

[BrazenMuse]

damn my academic hide, but I have developed the ability to finish books I hate ...survival. Still, if I am just reading for pleasure, I certainly will stop. Depends on what's specifically bad about it and how much bad stuff accumulates...too much = never finish.

Anne Rice's Queen of the Damned, for instance...finished the hardcover but was sooooo annoyed by the damned thing that I tossed it in our wood-burning stove and was warmed immeasurably by its immolation!

I have also, at least twice, delivered marked up copies of badly edited books back to their editors. Proofreading really isn't that hard nowadays. Really.

[El Mayimbe]

Anne Rice's Queen of the Damned, for instance...finished the hardcover but was sooooo annoyed by the damned thing that I tossed it in our wood-burning stove and was warmed immeasurably by its immolation!

wha aaaaaaaaaaaaat?!?!?!!?!?!?!!?!?!!




u didnt find the idea of eliminating every man in this world as an interesting premise that Anne Rice brought up?
I was an avid Vampire Chronicle fan but by Queen of THe Damned it did get kind of stale...regardless, i find the series one of the best in that genre

[panklady]

damn my academic hide, but I have developed the ability to finish books I hate ...survival. Still, if I am just reading for pleasure, I certainly will stop. Depends on what's specifically bad about it and how much bad stuff accumulates...too much = never finish.

Anne Rice's Queen of the Damned, for instance...finished the hardcover but was sooooo annoyed by the damned thing that I tossed it in our wood-burning stove and was warmed immeasurably by its immolation!

I have also, at least twice, delivered marked up copies of badly edited books back to their editors. Proofreading really isn't that hard nowadays. Really.

To answer the post...I am like Ngeso...allthetime. Bray, your post warmed my heart especially the proofreading part. I screamed in agreement. :-)