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| graciegreeneyes |
Posted - Mar 13 2010 : 7:57:58 PM
Okay, I picked up a book at the library, the title looked interesting, the story sounded good, and when I started to read it I really found it to be not very well written but - and this is the part I'm wondering if anyone else does - I kept reading, and kept on trying. I put it down at least 6 times because the author's style was driving me nuts, then felt compelled to pick it back up because I had to finish what I started. Anybody else finish books they don't like just to finish them? I actually have given up on this particular book, I just can't do it, but that might be a first for me. (I'm not going to say what book it is in case it is somebody's favorite, although it is pretty obscure so probably not:))
Amy Grace
Farmgirl #224
"use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without"
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| willowtreecreek |
Posted - Mar 21 2010 : 08:49:10 AM
I do and I often hate myself for doing it because I feel like I am wasting my time but I hate to give up. Even if it is AWFUL I will always finish it.
Farmgirl Sister #17
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| textilelover |
Posted - Mar 21 2010 : 06:08:05 AM
Amy, There are so many great books out there and not enough time to read that I don't finish a book if I don't like it. What I have found, though, is that some books I don't enjoy reading, I have liked when read TO ME as a book on tape or CD, and vice versa. I've loved some books in print and not as an audio book (this happens when the author reads as opposed to a professional actor or actress or reader). Crazy, but true. There are books that I love and recommend that others say they couldn't get into or ploughed through, and I've felt the same way about books (movies too) that others rave about. And sometimes it's timing. I've gone back to certain books in different times of my life and I guess I was more open or ready for them. I'm curious...WHAT is the book??? Your Farm Friend, Dianne
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| texdane |
Posted - Mar 18 2010 : 6:50:53 PM
That's a great idea Penny. I feel the same way.
Nicole
Farmgirl Sister #1155
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| peafarm |
Posted - Mar 17 2010 : 7:20:39 PM
I wish books came with "movie ratings". I have an easier time reading poorly written books then books with too much language, sex, violence, blah, blah. I am embarrassed that my name is recorded as checking out these books from the library. I know, I'm in the minority nowadays to care about these things.
Penny
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| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - Mar 17 2010 : 04:47:42 AM
I find that there are times when certain books and I just aren't on the same page (ha!)...It was that with Willa Cather's My Antonia. I think I picked that book up 3 times before I had that "a ha!" moment and really loved it. I gave it to my mil the next week after finishing it, and oddly enough, she had the very same experience...just couldn't get into it.
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| texdane |
Posted - Mar 16 2010 : 05:17:21 AM
Yep, do that too. I joined a neighborhood book club several years ago, and find I do that alot because we simply don't have the same taste in books, but it is hard to be in the discussion without having read the entire thing. Yep, the guilt gets me. Isn't that funny how we women do that?
Nicole
Farmgirl Sister #1155
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| ddmashayekhi |
Posted - Mar 15 2010 : 6:51:17 PM
Been there, done that and want those hours of my life back!
Dawn in IL |
| graciegreeneyes |
Posted - Mar 15 2010 : 6:27:11 PM
That's exactly how I felt about this book Lainey - I could see what the author was trying to accomplish, it was a great storyline, and yes, I would like to find out what happens but her technique just didn't cut it.
Amy Grace
Farmgirl #224
"use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without"
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| Lainey |
Posted - Mar 15 2010 : 08:47:37 AM
I've done that quite a few times. And sometimes I will finish them just because I've read to about the middle and I feel that I 'have' to finish it. There's an author that has written a series lately that I had a very hard time just finishing the first one. I didn't care for her writing style at all, I just couldn't get into them. But they are so popular I felt it must just be me so I had to at least finish the first one. Thank goodness they have and are being made into movies. Because the storyline of these books is very good, it was just the author's style that I couldn't get into.
Farmgirl Sister #25
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| CountryBorn |
Posted - Mar 14 2010 : 11:34:43 AM
Ususally I just quit reading it. But, the one author I won't do that with is Stephen King. I have found that he always starts out pretty slow and then just when you think oh to heck with this it just keeps getting more and more interesting.
MJ
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| corabela |
Posted - Mar 14 2010 : 11:22:21 AM
What a weird coincidence...I was just talking about this with an older friend on Friday. She mentioned having this problem her whole life and has recently come to the conclusion that life is too short to read a book you don't even like just for the sake of finishing it.
I never finished Catcher in the Rye for exactly that reason.
~Laura
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| graciegreeneyes |
Posted - Mar 14 2010 : 10:47:40 AM
I made it halfway through, just can't keep on, the guilt is killing me though:D
Amy Grace
Farmgirl #224
"use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without"
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| dutchy |
Posted - Mar 14 2010 : 09:08:56 AM
I sometimes do that, but most times I put it away and maybe try again later :)
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| vintagediva1 |
Posted - Mar 14 2010 : 08:23:25 AM
So many books, so little time.
I once read that you should try to get though 20% of a book before giving up on it. I try to do that, but...... there are just so many other things I want to read
Sometimes I will go back to a book months later and love it and don't know why I didn't like it the first time.
Bad timing, mood, weather, who knowa
Michele
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| patchworkpeace |
Posted - Mar 14 2010 : 05:24:16 AM
My unwritten rule is give it 90-100 pages and if I still can't get into it then I'm done. I know what you mean about feeling bad though, sometimes I feel that way, too.
Judy
Success is measured not by the position one reaches but by the obstacles one has to overcome to reach it. Booker T. Washington |
| maggie14 |
Posted - Mar 13 2010 : 9:50:36 PM
well to be honest I just put it down and forget about it. lol Sorry! I try so hard to finish it but find that I just can't do it.
Hugs,
channah
Farmgirl sister #1219
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| knittinchick |
Posted - Mar 13 2010 : 9:03:07 PM
I always try to finish books. I feel bad if I don't, and I end up picking it back up, starting over, and finishing.
God's Blessings,
Megan
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| prariehawk |
Posted - Mar 13 2010 : 8:58:11 PM
Sometimes I'll start reading a book but the style doesn't grab me, so I'll put it down and forget about it. Then, a few years later, I'll find it and start reading it and it's better. don't know why, but it's happened a number of times.
Cindy |
| gramadinah |
Posted - Mar 13 2010 : 8:41:00 PM
I have so little time for reading and so it the book doesn't grab me pretty hard I give it up.
Diana
Farmgirl Sister #273 |
