Thursday, 04 June 2009
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Arkansas
By John Brandon
see relatedA Not So "Literary" Question.....!
When I went to the L.A. Times Festival of Books a few months back, I got a lot of recommendations on books to read (as well as a lot of SWAG).....!
A few books in particular were so well-recommended to me that I actually went out and bought them. (I had, of course, also read a short summary of what it's about, etc.etc.)
I started reading one the other week and the first dozen or so pages were kind of interesting to start off, but now.....I'm just not feeling it anymore and I'm tempted to just stop reading it altogether.
Has anyone ever done this? At what point do you decide that a book is, for whatever reason, "not worth finishing?"
(If you're curious - the book in question is the book I'm "currently reading" at the top of this post)
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Comments (2)
I like that you use the term "well recommended." It's true, isn't it, that the right pitch from someone whose opinion you trust can pretty much get you to buy anything?
Some books just aren't worth the agony, if you feel no excitment or real draw to a book then you might as well just drop it. Thanks for subscribing by the way.