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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 1297 Views
There have been plenty. - 31/03/2012 01:40:56 PM 1071 Views
Well when you put it like that - 04/04/2012 08:45:14 AM 1029 Views
Hm. Rarely as a conscious decision... - 31/03/2012 01:45:52 PM 906 Views
Re: Hm. Rarely as a conscious decision... - 04/04/2012 08:49:56 AM 1141 Views
Yup. GRRM's stuff *NM* - 31/03/2012 02:53:47 PM 466 Views
Me too. I tried twice. - 31/03/2012 04:18:50 PM 1089 Views
Cor - 04/04/2012 08:51:49 AM 1122 Views
I gave The 120 Days of Sodom a try. Yuck. - 31/03/2012 03:45:55 PM 983 Views
Many times - 31/03/2012 04:12:34 PM 1001 Views
Rarely. - 31/03/2012 04:59:50 PM 930 Views
As a conscious decision, only Moby Dick - 31/03/2012 09:57:11 PM 912 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 944 Views
Page 1? That is impressive. *NM* - 01/04/2012 11:26:09 PM 387 Views
You can laugh all you want Legolas, but I agree - 02/04/2012 06:42:36 PM 901 Views
Dicken's Hard Times bored me senseless, so I stopped - 01/04/2012 06:31:44 PM 1086 Views
Get out *NM* - 05/04/2012 08:19:34 AM 466 Views
Several - 02/04/2012 06:47:27 PM 981 Views
Heehee - 05/04/2012 08:22:13 AM 1081 Views
Of course! All the time! - 02/04/2012 11:28:58 PM 960 Views
Re: Of course! All the time! - 05/04/2012 08:24:10 AM 984 Views
Definitely try- give yourself permission to stop/quit. - 11/04/2012 08:47:07 PM 847 Views
All the fucking time. - 10/04/2012 04:28:13 AM 895 Views
Great minds... - 11/04/2012 08:41:33 PM 871 Views
I know right? - 16/04/2012 04:53:19 AM 990 Views
Once - 11/04/2012 04:28:43 PM 786 Views
Hell yes - 11/04/2012 09:37:55 PM 903 Views
I'm sure I have... - 12/04/2012 02:32:44 PM 889 Views

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