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When do you give up on a book?
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I can put up with a book being a bit tulip and badly written but when writers start relying on lazy clichés I generally give up.Coffee's for closersComment
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Originally posted by VectraMan View PostI gave up on Bored of the Rings, and then years later I gave up on the film too.
I did read The Hobbit, but only to try to find out how to do the computer game.'CUK forum personality of 2011 - Winner - Yes really!!!!Comment
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Generally I'll either read about 10 pages, or the whole thing. However I'm very fickle choosing books from new authors... browsing Amazon you've nothing to go from other than the title and cover really! So I'll take a punt on books on sale to a quid and get some nice surprises.
As Sas mentioned the Kindle, you can normally get the first chapter free but I don't seem to make much use of that - probably I should get the free bit of loads and loads of books as a way to find new things, but the investment of time when I could re-read an old favourite and I'm very busy is difficult.Originally posted by MaryPoppinsI'd still not breastfeed a naziOriginally posted by vetranUrine is quite nourishingComment
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If I have the time then I'll generally persevere to get through most things. Notable exceptions are catch-22 which took two attempts 3 years apart and Anna Karenina which was just mind numbingly boring. (Mrs P loved it)Comment
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Originally posted by Pondlife View PostIf I have the time then I'll generally persevere to get through most things. Notable exceptions are catch-22 which took two attempts 3 years apart and Anna Karenina which was just mind numbingly boring. (Mrs P loved it)Comment
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Originally posted by mudskipper View PostI read Catch-22 recently and enjoyed it mostly.Comment
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Originally posted by Bunk View PostNever got into Ulysses. I go back to it every so often to see if I can make some progress but inevitably give up.
Even Joyce himself admitted that the book was designed to keep literary scholars busy for decades trying to understand it.
Very, very rare that I do not finish a book, but another pseudo-intellectual bullsh*t book to add to the list 'god, this is simply rubbish' is:
Gravity's Rainbow: Amazon.co.uk: Customer Reviews: Gravity's Rainbow
EDIT: And add Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (as someone mentioned it above.) A huge disappointment.Last edited by nomadd; 12 July 2013, 07:13.nomadd liked this postComment
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At 16 tried, very hard, more than once, to read Ulysses, never got more than 30 pages in.
I was a bit sceptical of Tolkien anyway, but probably made a mistake by trying to start with The Silmarillion, gave up rapidly and never went near him again.Comment
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Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was an important book for me. I latched on to some of the philosophy, thought, re-read, re-thought, and turned my understanding of the world inside out.
Note not saying its a good book, or that anyone else should read it! Even I found large chunks boring and the book unsatisfying as a whole.Comment
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