Do you finish books even if you find them boring? What if they're highly praised "classic" books?
I have spent most of the past two years not reading at all because I've started boring books that I feel like I have to finish or else people will call me a pleb.
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I stop. Life isn't a school exam. Hated Master and Margarita, some others I can't recall.
Ironically I (OP) really liked that book when reading it despite all allegories going over my head. I even read it back when I was much newer to reading.
I have given up on a tale of two cities early on twice. I persevered halfway through Nicholas Nickleby but it was just so awful I had to postpone it. I'm now about three quarters through the brothers Karamazov and it is horrendous
I just keep rotating between books. I'll never read everything I want to in my lifetime. Some of my best reads have been difficult ones though.
Finishing books by force is one of the most pseud things I can think of.
I even have a theory that people who often don't finish books are more intelligent than others
I'm really tempted to give up "The Handmaid's Tale." It's just so fucking excruciating.
I dropped JR 200 pages in and I dropped Blood Meridian 2/3. The latter was just so fucking awful.
I found blood meridian alright, the last third was the best part. It's at least interesting, hardly a bore in my opinion
>Blood Meridian was awful
Shit, I'm reading it right now and I think it's amazing. I'm only 1/4 through tho.
I finish them
Some books are redeemed by certain parts, won't know unless you finish them
I find it gives me insight to the author, the writing style and somewhat the literature movement
A book only takes a couple of hours to read. I work 8 hours a day doing something i dont enjoy. Reading a book that I don't enjoy for like 5 hours total is nothing