If you start a book, how long do you give it until you decide it’s not for you? Or do you always finish to the end?
If you start a book, how long do you give it until you decide it’s not for you? Or do you always finish to the end?
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Being a book reviewer for a magazine, I tend to read the whole thing. There have been other books that I just can’t get into…but the ones I review I tend to stick with it. Xx
I give up more easily on non fiction that hasn’t grabbed me but novels I stick with unless they become too unpleasant x
Most times I have to finish. If I just cannot get into it, I realize it pretty early on, usually.
I’ll give it atleast the first few chapters cause I’ll know by then if the writing style or story just isn’t for me. I have a tendency though to try an plow through a lot of the time ?
If I’m enjoying the story but the writing isn’t very good then I’ll persevere to the end. If I’m not enjoying the story then I’ll give it to 30-40% & then give up.
Carry on to the end, only ever given up on 1 book.
I try to give it at least a few chapters, as long as there is a character I care about , something I need to find out or it is just lovely writing I will keep going.
I find that I give up on a book far easier reading on a kindle than old style paper/hardbook .. don’t ask me why ??? ?
It’s cause you can’t see how much you’ve read I think
I’m same as @Ruth there have been books in the past that have been hypes by media such as da Vinci code and 50 shades tha I persevered with cos I thought it had to get better
I used to read a book to the bitter end enjoying it or not then I read something somewhere saying there are too many books and life is too short to keep reading on you aren’t enjoying. Now I give it 100 pages, then move on if I don’t like it. It doesn’t happen often. The last book I gave up was American psycho, I liked the film but the book is just disgusting.
There comes a point for me when i realise that i don’t care about any of the characters, couldn’t care less what’s happening next and that’s the time to bale out – life’s too short for bad books.
I give it 3 chapters and then if it’s not grabbing me that’s it onto the next one I used to start and finish a book no matter what but life’s too short !! Lol x
Approx twenty pages then it gets put down move onto the next one then go back one day when i have run out of ones that get me by page four lol I know twenty pages isn’t long enough but life is just too short when there are gripping ones hanging around but like i say i always give them another go when there are none about and it then takes a lot to give up on it!!
Two or three pages. Unless it’s truly awful I’ll usualy try it again after I’ve read something else as sometimes it’s just the mood I’m in, not a problem with the book.
I had a book that I tried to read loads of times but just couldn’t get into it so I took it as my book for a long flight I was taking – turned out to be the best book I’d read in I don’t know how long but it was just slow to start with lol 🙂
Always finish
About 50-100 pages
Usually finish reading them but if after 100 pages I’m not enjoying it I give up on it.
I read just the first few pages and if I’m not hooked by then I don’t waste my time.