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 Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 9:40 pm
Have you ever read a book so horrible you just stopped reading it? Thrown it against the wall, maybe, or just forgot about it because it was kinda boring?
Do you finish what you start all the time, even if a book totally sucks, or do you not waste time and find a better read?
Discuss.
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Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 4:20 pm
The only time that I tend to read bad books is either due to a foolish hope that it will get better or I want to finish a series, like King's Dark Tower books. If I purchased it new I will give it a chance, but if I'm not hooked by chapter three I will give up.
Other than that I abandon books all the time.
I wanted to throw Wolves of the Calla across the room, I really did... sweatdrop But I must know how the series ends and not with a summary but actually reading it.
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Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:39 pm
Most recently it was it was The Talisman by Stephen King and another writer whose name escaped me. Couldn't get into that book to save my life. They completely failed in making me give the slightest of cares towards the main character and the plot was so akin to the Dark Tower series that I just gave up, which isn't something I do lightly. Luckily, I have a friend who is one of the biggest Stephen King fanatics I've ever met (I still love him though), so I gave it to him.
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Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 12:42 am
I have only actualy ever done that once. Usualy no matter how poor the book is how uneventful it may be I have to finish it only to know how it ends, or in the hopes that at least they thaught their ending through... The book I absolutely had to put down was "The silver Kiss". A lot of my friends had read it and thaught it amazing, so I figured 'why not?' turns out that even the most eventful parts of the book had me stoping to daydream about some semi-related event. And despite the fact that it was probably only a third the size of the smallest books that I regularly read I had to put it down, and rather than finish the last few chapters I returned it to the library and asked my friend for a summery of the end.
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Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 2:42 pm
I don't quit on books very often, but when I do it's usually because I both lost intrest in the book and I have another book on hand that I really want to read
if I don't have that secound book I usually just keep reading the first one regaurdless if I want to read it or not (though it sometimes takes quite a while to get though it do to the lack of intrest) because I'm a stickler for completing things
also, if it's a book I acually don't like, I feel I have to read the whole thing anyways so when I later complan about it people can't say that I didn't give it a chance
usually though if I do infact quit a book, I make sure to quit in a very aparent stopping place, like exaclly halfway though or at the end of a 'Part 1' (quite often it turns out the two are the same)
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Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 6:43 pm
I think I've done that maybe twice. The books were just too slow and didn't grab my attention fast enough and I think i forgot about a couple as well because others were just more interesting at the time. I know that I abandoned Brighty of the Grand Canyon because it was seriously boring. I wanted to throw it against the wall but i don't throw books. No matter how dull they are.
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Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 8:25 am
I started reading the book gifts.....it's the first in a series!! I'm sure there are other people that like it but I'm not one of them. It's not that I hate it I just had a really hard time getting into it.
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Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 8:37 pm
Dracula and Interview with the Vampire. I've tried twice to read them but, as much as I love vampires, they just weren't my cup of tea.
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Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 10:11 pm
(Michiko: Are you talking about the one by Ursula K Le Guin?)
When it comes to books, the only reason I don't finish a book is when I put it down to read something else and then forget about it. There was one book, though...I started reading it, and I tried so hard to get into it and keep reading, but I eventually put it down and picked up something else...I meant to try again, but every time I touched it I'd put it right back down. Sadly, I can't remember the title. (I wonder if it's connected...)
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Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 9:55 am
Eragon.... gonk I have no idea what it is, but I've been trying to read that book since the day it came out.
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Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 12:00 pm
I know many people will disagree with me, but i just hated the life of Pi. i read it, and thought to myself "i can't believe i just read this absolutely awful book." and then it occurred to me that everyone else i knew loved it, and this concerned me, as i just absolutely despised it. So to see if i was just having an off day, i read it AGAIN, and it was worse for me the second time. The worst part about it is, I seem to be the only person i've ever met who doesn't like the book. That's frustrating. i feel as though i'm out of some universal loop.
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Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 6:44 pm
I am absolutely floored that Gary Paulsen has the nerve to call himself a writer.
Has anyone here read "Woodsong"??? I know that had I been the one reading it, I wouldn't have passed page one, but my teacher was reading it to us in Middle School.
It was TERRIBLE!!! He went on for 3 chapters about the importance of blood in modern society. It was so terribly boring that we all promptly went to sleep when she started reading it.
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Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 10:59 am
Eragorn bored me to tears. I was so disappointed after hearing so much hype about it...
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Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:06 pm
Yukio-Vil I am absolutely floored that Gary Paulsen has the nerve to call himself a writer. Has anyone here read "Woodsong"??? I know that had I been the one reading it, I wouldn't have passed page one, but my teacher was reading it to us in Middle School. It was TERRIBLE!!! He went on for 3 chapters about the importance of blood in modern society. It was so terribly boring that we all promptly went to sleep when she started reading it. thats terrible! You have the teacher the exact opposite of mine. She can make even the most unapealing standerd english work seem like the greatest tale ever written! Seriously, We are reading canturbery tales right now and just about everyone else with a diffrent english teacher didn't know there was a gay cupple at all in that story!
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 6:09 am
I normally persist with books even if they are rubbish i'll read them just because i don't like leaving books unfinished and still like to finish them hehe
The Historian i just can't seem to get into at the moment for some reason it is taking forever to read. I'm reading it and thinking yesi want to carry on and i want to know what happens but im thinking this is so boring just shoot me now lol!
I WILL FINISH THOUGH sweatdrop stressed
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