what do you read?

[krink]

Question for you readers...

If you are not enjoying a book, do you give up on it or finish it?

George RR Martin? ..... later jerk.

I usually try to skim to get some closure if I am at all involved in the story. If the writer continues to needlessly expound or make new story arcs and not bring closure to the main protagonist, I'll walk away.

 

[Cole]

Like @jShort said, I quit audio books. I have quit them just because of the narrator. I hate when they switch narrators in the middle of a series!

 

[OddTrickStar]

Question for you readers...

If you are not enjoying a book, do you give up on it or finish it?

I used to finish them when I was younger. Now I’ll put it down and read something else.

Biggest problem for me now is I almost always know exactly where the story is going and how it ends, like i already read the story. Not just that I forgot that I read it already, although that has happened.

 

[Fire Lord Jim]

Question for you readers...

If you are not enjoying a book, do you give up on it or finish it?

I rarely bail on a book. I don't read fiction, and am usually trying to learn something. So the enjoyment factor is counterbalanced against what I will not learn if I bail.

 

[jmanic]

I have bailed on a couple of books in recent memory- both autobiographies.
One I was just not having the projected self image (looking at you Keef), the other I couldn’t follow wtf he was saying (looking at you Dylan).

So yeah, if I’m not feeling it, fuck it- plenty of good ones like Jiminy’s teacher said.

Interestingly I did push through on a book about Blues history that everyone raved about.
The first half of was hot garbage, second half was great.
I then realized it was co-authored…