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Many times DomA Send a noteboard - 31/03/2012 04:12:34 PM
Whenever it's pop/entertainment literature and it bores me or the quality puts me off and similar reasons, I do myself the favor of stopping before I lose any more of my time. Life's too short, and leisure time is too short, to accept to be bored by what you pick to entertain yourself, IMO. From time to time (rarely), I give some of those books further tries later, especially series as I know of my "problems" with beginnings (couldn't get through Eye of the World/The Great Hunt or Garden of the Moon for a long time).

For other kinds of literature, those I don't read for entertainment and if it happened to entertain me as well it's a bonus, it happens more rarely. With contemporary writers/new releases more often, but with classics I generally have a good idea what I get into beforehand, and I generally stick to it to the end, though both with non-fiction and literature, it happens a lot that on the way I decide my timing for reading that book just wasn't good, and I postpone reading it for weeks/months/years.

It happened recently with the third Monaldi & Sorti that wasn't grabbing me and that I decided to keep for the summer vacations when I can spend many hours reading at a time (my summers are usually "extreme", that's when I read concurrently the "fluffiest" entertainment stuff I choose to read in the year, and the most "heavy-going" stuff).
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Have you ever stopped reading a book because you really don't like it? - 31/03/2012 10:47:46 AM 1674 Views
There have been plenty. - 31/03/2012 01:40:56 PM 1487 Views
Well when you put it like that - 04/04/2012 08:45:14 AM 1544 Views
Hm. Rarely as a conscious decision... - 31/03/2012 01:45:52 PM 1275 Views
Re: Hm. Rarely as a conscious decision... - 04/04/2012 08:49:56 AM 1671 Views
Yup. GRRM's stuff *NM* - 31/03/2012 02:53:47 PM 683 Views
Me too. I tried twice. - 31/03/2012 04:18:50 PM 1454 Views
Cor - 04/04/2012 08:51:49 AM 1689 Views
I gave The 120 Days of Sodom a try. Yuck. - 31/03/2012 03:45:55 PM 1310 Views
Many times - 31/03/2012 04:12:34 PM 1386 Views
Rarely. - 31/03/2012 04:59:50 PM 1286 Views
As a conscious decision, only Moby Dick - 31/03/2012 09:57:11 PM 1276 Views
yes. mostly when i was in high school... couldn't read erikson, i got to p100 and still didn't care - 01/04/2012 06:49:45 AM 1311 Views
Page 1? That is impressive. *NM* - 01/04/2012 11:26:09 PM 599 Views
You can laugh all you want Legolas, but I agree - 02/04/2012 06:42:36 PM 1288 Views
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Get out *NM* - 05/04/2012 08:19:34 AM 728 Views
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Of course! All the time! - 02/04/2012 11:28:58 PM 1355 Views
Re: Of course! All the time! - 05/04/2012 08:24:10 AM 1574 Views
Definitely try- give yourself permission to stop/quit. - 11/04/2012 08:47:07 PM 1263 Views
All the fucking time. - 10/04/2012 04:28:13 AM 1314 Views
Great minds... - 11/04/2012 08:41:33 PM 1272 Views
I know right? - 16/04/2012 04:53:19 AM 1397 Views
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