If you have a real bad book

[low-key]

Do you keep reading it or stop at some point ?


I go about 30 percent and complain for a week

 

[cluvsdisney]

I'll stop reading a book I don't enjoy.

 

[Cantw8]

I usually keep going, I hate being a quitter. I have read a few boring ones but the last one I read that I almost quit on was Mr Mercedes...blehhhh

 

[slo]

I've quit the following...

Sophie's Choice (this being the most recent one)
The Lost World
Scarlett
The Host

 

[Flight]

I will stop reading. Sometimes I push on trying to give the book a chance, but ultimately put the book away. I tell students, especially those that do not like to read, that there is no shame by putting a book down that they do not like. Sometimes for school work they have to finish a book. But if it is casual reading and they do not like it, find another book. There are millions of great stories to read!

 

[M5ward]

If I'm not into it by 50-75 pages, I will stop reading. The last book that I pushed myself through, "Gone Girl" was time spent that I can never recover.

 

[Soldier's*Sweeties]

Both. If I see it going nowhere I stop. Other times I muscle through. Actually I have found a few good books that way

 

[okeydokey]

I won't waste my time on a bad book, but I do read the last few pages to satisfy any curiosity about how it ends!

 

[Gumbo4x4]

I've had to suffer through many because my grades depended on it. As an adult, I don't think I've hit any that were "that" bad, but I only choose stuff that interests me now.

 

[Dizlvr]

No I will not read a bad book, there are so many good books out there I don't want to waste my time on the bad ones.

 

[bsblady01]

if I don't enjoy it I stop reading it.

 

[YoYoAurora]

I'll put it down, then in a few months, I'll try it again. Some books took me a few years to read. Patricia Cornwell's first novel took me five years to read. I don't know what changed, but after about five years, I picked it up and enjoyed the book.

If I force myself to read a book I'm not enjoying, I get headaches and grumpy. Oh wait, the grumpy part may just be me.

 

[E&Cmom]

If I can't get into it by around 100 pages I give up. There are too many other books out there to read.

 

[lizabu]

I will push through and finish it. There are a number of books that didn't start out so hot that wound up being pretty interesting.

 

[tinkerbellandeeyor]

What if you pay for it you read the sample fall in love with ssmple but it turns out to be a bad book do you still put the book down

 

[JustCor]

I stop reading. If I want to know how it ends, I'll go on wikipedia or find a plot summary online to get the general idea of where the story was going and if the summary turns out to be interesting, I might try reading the book again at a later date. Mostly though, if it's a chore to read, I'll stop.

 

[cluvsdisney]

What if you pay for it you read the sample fall in love with ssmple but it turns out to be a bad book do you still put the book down

Yes. There is no reason for me to spend my leisure/free time doing something I am not enjoying.

 

[kimblebee]

I'll stop reading it if I'm not enjoying it.

On the flip side, I REFUSE to stop watching a movie, no matter how bad it is. I keep hoping that it will get better. I also have watched movies because they are 'masterpieces' even though I think it is awful. Case in point.. Blade runner. How can this hunk of garbage be considered a classic?? It sucked! I did watch it to the end though.

Within the next few days I am going to torture myself with Naked Lunch. I'd tell you the plot but you wouldn't believe me. Here's the wiki for it

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Lunch_(film)

 

[macraven]

op, go for the books that have a lot of pictures in them.
i'm sure you wil go past that 30% mark and finish them all.........lol

 

[Handbag Lady]

I'm a reader and I try to read at least two books a week. I can sometimes hate a book (Gone Girl, I am looking at you) but I will always try to finish. With Gone Girl, I realized after I finished it that the structure and creative presentation got me to HATE the middle section of the book. Maybe that is what the author wanted? I HATED the female character so much by the end.

There are two books that I've started to read that I just cannot finish: A Tale of Two Cities and Sense and Sensibility.