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How long do you persevere with a book?

29 replies

posey · 08/02/2012 20:40

If you are struggling to get into it, are bored with it, just don't like it....do you keep on going in the hope it will improve, or do you think life is too short?

I have always been a bit of the persevering type. I only remember not finishing one book. That was until I joined a book group. I couldn't finish Wolf Hall, and am also struggling with the current one, but think I will keep going.

So which camp are you in, generally speaking?

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freelancescientist · 08/02/2012 21:03

I was told to take my age away from 100, and give a book that many pages to decide if it was worth carrying on.

orienteerer · 08/02/2012 20:56

A few pages, possibly not even a whole Chapter.

FaverOliverTwist · 08/02/2012 20:55

After reading the whole of Sophies World, I am firmly in the give up camp. Life is too short to read tosh.

SaintsFever · 08/02/2012 20:55

To the end of the first chapter if I don't care about the plot or the characters by then I'm not going to after ten, and I always have something new to move onto

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