Bad books?

[Anonymous]

Do you force yourself to finish a bad book?

I'm 3/4 through a book. I want to bail on it, but I feel guilty, like I must will myself to finish this book! You?

[Anonymous]

I used to be that way but now, unless it's a classic, I feel no guilt tossing it to the side and picking up something better.

If it's a classic or one that is on the NY Times bestseller list I try to hang in there until the end with the hopes that it'll get better.

[Anonymous]

No, I bail on books all the time. There are too many that I want to read to waste time with the bad ones.

[Anonymous]

I usually give a book 100 to 150 pages. After that, PP is spot on . . . There are too many others to waste my time

[Anonymous]

I ditch more books than I used to. Sometimes if I want to be done with the book, I'll read the worst Amazon reviews for it, to see if other readers see it my way. I feel better quitting the book if I see that other readers share my complaints.

[Anonymous]

Normally, no. But my book club chose "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck" for book club this month and it was AWFUL but I made myself finish it because that's how book club works, and so I could bash it as thoroughly as possible.

[Anonymous]

Yes. I force myself through. I'm also apparently a masochist about this and generally if the book came highly recommended by someone whose opinion on books I usually think well of or it's just been raved about in general and I hate it, I will actually reread it in hopes of seeing something I missed the first time through.

And this would be why I've read Confederacy of Dunces a half dozen times. Still hate it.

[Anonymous]

No, I bail. Life is too short to read a crappy book.

[Anonymous]

Bail. I give up after 50 pages which is about an hour for me. Life is too short.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Normally, no. But my book club chose "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck" for book club this month and it was AWFUL but I made myself finish it because that's how book club works, and so I could bash it as thoroughly as possible.

What kind of book club are you in that would pick this book? What is the discussion about? This seems so weird to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I ditch more books than I used to. Sometimes if I want to be done with the book, I'll read the worst Amazon reviews for it, to see if other readers see it my way. I feel better quitting the book if I see that other readers share my complaints.

I do this too!

[Anonymous]

I don't know why I finished that Jonathan Franz poop book. I won't ever read anything of his again. China Mieville, on the other hand. I did not finish one of his books, but they are all so different from each other and some are amazingly unique, so I would try again.

[Anonymous]

I used to, and then realized I'm a grownup, they're all library books I didn't pay for, and I'm no longer in school and going to have to write a paper about them.

So now I don't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I ditch more books than I used to. Sometimes if I want to be done with the book, I'll read the worst Amazon reviews for it, to see if other readers see it my way. I feel better quitting the book if I see that other readers share my complaints.

I do this too!

Me too! I'll also check out some Goodreads reviews and see if my friends have read it. Helps lessen my guilt over ditching a book when I know it's not going to get better.

[Anonymous]

Nope. Life's too short to suffer through shitty stories.