>you start reading a novel by a famous classic author >you're bored as hell >there are still 400 out of 700 pages left
Do you stop reading it? How do you explain yourself to others if you give up on it? Are you ashamed? Are you worried that you're now considered a pleb?
Aiden Williams
I'm the kind of asshole that finishes every book I start. I can't remember when, if ever, I dropped a book.
Jason Jackson
This, you're only allowed to criticise it if you finish, otherwise your only criticism can be 'I didn't finish it because it was so boring'
Luis Taylor
I'm the same way. After reading a fair bit in high school I dropped off so hard in college that I don't think I finished a book for pleasure until senior year. I would just lose interest and never see it through.
I think a fear of returning to that makes me finish even the most boring stuff once I've started it.
Hudson Rivera
this. maybe it will take me a few weeks to finish, depending on the size, but i cannot live with myself if i dont finish it, thats why i only read what i feel like reading and avoid 1000 pages ficctions unless its a great classic
Evan Gutierrez
The brothers karamazov is a good book OP. Maybe shouldve read other Dostoevsky first
Isaiah Wilson
I felt that way about the romance of Gargantua & Pantagruel, but it kept changing enough that I couldn't put it down. You go from sex and shit jokes to a scheme of humanist education, to a badass monk killing people with a crucifix (described in great anatomical detail), to a philosophical voyage across the world, with the shitty giant becoming a sort of Socrates.
But if I had a nickle for every book I didn't finish I would have at least a couple of bucks.
Isaiah Mitchell
Kek not OP, but you got me
Brayden Wood
Four retards in a row. Well done.
Brody Peterson
Do you have a Kindle? I used to finish everything I got, but now it is so easy to download tons of books that I have dozens of books that I read one or two chapters only. Please help me.
Daniel Parker
Because they finish what they start?
Jacob Phillips
>"I started reading a novel by a famous classic author" >"he/she was really boring" >"i'm reading this author now instead"
it's not that fucking hard you had two thirds of it in your greentext. literature is supposed to make you think critically you autist
Lucas Morgan
So you have to watch the whole fucking of the new ghostbusters to say that it sucks?
Levi Long
I muscle my way through for Veeky Forums cred
Nathan Thomas
I even did this with IJ. Took months, regret it to this day
Cameron Thompson
You should remember that not every "classic" is actually good or will be readable to you. A good chunk of them are just really old genre fiction or old equivalents of things you wouldn't read had they been written now.
Robert Gonzalez
I've only ever dropped two books.
First: a Confederacy of Dunces
Second: Les Miserables, though I did pick that up and finish it a year later. (I skipped the sewer chapter and the 30 page description of life in that nunnery)
Ian Stewart
>Are you worried that you're now considered a pleb? Pleb detected. The only 100% mark of a pleb is worrying if others consider you to be a pleb.
Jason Gutierrez
It's fine, if it sucks it sucks, sometimes you get memed on into reading shitty books
Bentley Richardson
OP here, the book is Nicholas Nickleby
Jayden Torres
I agree, sort of.
Liam Gutierrez
I actually am dumbfounded you people bother to continue. I just drop something whenever I find myself consistently uninterested. You guys are weird.
Isaac Mitchell
Why did you drop the first one ?
Ryan Turner
It's hard to say. I was pretty depressed at the time having just finished university and being in a state of limbo where I was just laying around the house doing nothing but take up space, but also resenting the idea that I'd have to work, so I guess it hit too close to home in some ways.
Also I guess I just didn't enjoy the humour very much, even when Ignatius wasn't involved. It felt a bit repetitive. It's entirely possible I just wasn't in the right place to enjoy it.
Matthew Hill
Thanks for the answer, it's pretty interesting. Hope you feel better now.
Matthew Flores
Thanks. I went back to college for a masters degree after that and now I'm in the same position again,
My mindset is much better though, which makes all the difference in not hating life.
Ian Morris
>Started reading Bros K yesterday at midnight because reasons >Stopped reading. Its 4am
Holy fuck, what an amazing book.
Angel Ward
J. L. Borges once said that it does neither the author nor the reader any good if the reader simply cannot enjoy the work.
So if you're a little bitch and not enjoying the book, stop wasting everyone's time.
Liam Barnes
> Insulting people because you do not agree, even if the boy just asked a few questions without being harsh. > Thinking citing someone gives credibility and replaces an argumented opinion.
I know it's the glorious Internet, but why have you to be that edgy my friend ? OP was just a curious fuck and you're here, spitting your hate. Poor, poor thing...
By the way, I'm not OP.
Mason Fisher
so... you enjoy every book you read? you're really making miracles user
Parker Davis
If you can easily vocalize why you dislike something, then why bother reading? If you're worried about people looking down on you, for starters youre an embarrassment, and you'll know why you didn't like it.
Sebastian Cook
If you don't like it, you do not like it.
Jaxon Lewis
I try to go as far as I want/can. But, whatever the reason, if I don't like it, I don't read it. It's like veggies, have a taste sometimes, but if it isn't your thing, don't force yourself. Like he says I explain them why I gave up. No more complicated than that.
I feel annoyed to have started something without finnishing it. By the way, I will only criticize what I can, but my opnion won't be complete or fully acceptable I think.
I can't give a damn fuck about what others think about my readings habits. As says . Affraid to be pleb ? Do you build your identity on that "I don't wanna be a pleb" only ? I don't know about you, but I like what I like, I think about my tastes, I see what pleases me into it and that's pretty much everything.
Joseph Bailey
A Tale of Two Cities was bloody unbearable but I kept reading all the way through hoping my gripes would make sense by the end of it or that I would 'get it' by the time I finished reading. But no. I found the book horribly boring and stupid, but almost universal consensus says I'm wrong so I just feel dumb. But I will take this experience as a lesson and probably not stick with a book in the future if I am not enjoying it.
Jaxon Brown
I forced myself to finish pride and prejudice. I'm much more selective in what I read now.
If I start reading something like that and get bored of it, I'll just end up scanning thru the rest of the book rather than read it.
Alexander Howard
This. I finish everything I start to have criticism rights.
Yes
Joseph Garcia
this.
Daniel Robinson
You can criticize some point if you no not forget about your lacks. Saying that you can't criticize anything juste because you didn't eat the whole thing isn't totally true. If this was like that, only experts should discuss in their fields. It is very important, but on the other hand, you won't go far if you do not take other's opinions just because they do not know as much as you.
Aiden Gomez
I'm a bit over 100 pages into this. While it's beautifully written, it is so damn boring. Does it just have a slow start or am I in for more of the same?
Adam Sanchez
The Scott-Moncrieff translation is the best, even with it's flaws. The other translations feel clinical; his feels human.
Liam Parker
That's a pretty damning criticism.
These aren't textbooks, guys.
For me, I give the author 100 pages to show me something. That way I'm sure that I didn't just quit the first moment the author did something that upset me.
Reproducability is the most important quality of a story. People didn't carry Homer or Shakespeare into the future for posterity sake. They did it because they enjoyed hearing their stories.
Lincoln Rogers
>being 19 >calling someone "the boy"
Alexander Nelson
In my case i've dropped two books: Grapes of wrath: because its difficult to me to read in English at this moment, but im thinking in continuing it this year
Manhattan Transfer: Too many characters, bad translation, didn't like it
Jaxon Scott
Is this a meme im missing? i am actually trying to read the Brothers right now and it is my first Dostoevsky. Im having spikes of interest followed by long lulls in between. Did I fuck up by picking this as my first Dostoevsky book?
Connor Flores
>8379427 I gotta say the only part of that book that I liked was the chapter of Cartons death
Gabriel Hall
You should've started with Crime and Punishment.
Jaxon Barnes
Why is it that Carton, who is possibly the only interesting and sympathetic character in the book, is just there as a plot device to sacrifice himself to save all of the boring perfect do-no-wrong Mary Sues? What annoys me even more is that I feel as if I am expected to admire his character development from being down in the dumps and not doing anything with his life to pulling his bootstraps up.. in order to willingly kill himself in aid of a bunch of Mary Sues who barely have a character flaw between them. What is the message here? That his character flaws are redeemed by the fact he avoided the label of 'completely useless' by saving the people who aren't total fuckups like him and are thus more worthy of being saved and sympathized with?
Kayden Morgan
>start Don Quixote >loving it >by page 600 of the same thing over and over it starts to be a slog
i still love it but man - i jsut dont have the stamina for this
Colton Gomez
there are plenty of books I don't finish
some books I open halfway and just read a bit, no commitment
others I've been reading on-and-off for years
Jonathan Wright
Yes, you should be ashamed that you didn't finish Nicholas Nickleby
Christian Bailey
you are supposed to read it over many years
Jonathan Flores
are you referring to the 20 year period between part I and II, or are you just saying to read Don Quixote at a slow pace?
Josiah Phillips
> Doesn't appreciate the message > Assuming someone's age as an argument
O r you're talking about OP's age, in this case, I do not have any fuck to give.
Grayson Clark
keep your books in your computer, leave only one book in your e-reader