Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

[agilebrit]

Okay, I'm reading a book.

I'm 455 pages into it, and I have 120 pages left.

And it's got cast-of-thousands-itis, the plot (such as it is) meanders all over the place both narratively and location-wise, and I'm not really enjoying it, particularly.

I hate not finishing it, but, dude. Life is too short to read a fiction book I have to slog through. I'm one of those people who hates not finishing a book I've started, but I think I'm going to give up on this one. I have two entire bookshelves full of books to read that I will no doubt enjoy more than this, and there's no sense in reading a novel if it's a chore.

Right? Validate me? Someone?

Comments

[modernelegance.livejournal.com]

Toss it aside...it's obviously not going to be worth your time. Go watch Iron Man 2 instead to drown your sorrows.

[kensieg.livejournal.com]

Absolutely! I'm surpriseed you got this far into the book.

[flynn-boyant.livejournal.com]

Life is to short force yourself to finish something you dislike that is supposed to be for your entertainment.

I abandon books half-way through for that very reason. I also stop watching tv series or shut off a movie before the end if it's just not clicking with me.

You're absolutely right, it shouldn't be a chore! ;)

[midnightsjane.livejournal.com]

Reading should give you pleasure, not frustration! If it's not working for you, it's not worth the time.
I gave up on "Ulysses" when a bunch of us were reading it, because I kept reading the same pages over and over again. It bored me to tears, and I could never remember what I'd read before. So I quit, in spite of the fact that a number of my friends thought it was the greatest book ever!. Not.

[mela-lyn.livejournal.com]

I used to HATE not finishing a book... then I started reading one called 'Patrick', which, while the writing was good, the main character was a selfish prick and despite all the crap he'd gone through halfway into a 600 page book had learned Absolutely. Freaking. Nothing. First book I put aside.

Right now I'm debating if I will ever pick up Cherie Priest's steampunk again. I read like 140 pages and it's sooooooooooo slooooooooooooow and boring and nothing has happened... but I spent fifteen bucks on it!! EGRERGERG!!!

(See. I totally understand. May we know what book so we know what to avoid?)

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

It's "Dies the Fire" by SM Stirling, and it was recommended to me by a friend. I now realize that his and my tastes coincide only by wild coincidence, and this time they didn't. Alas.

[mela-lyn.livejournal.com]

My dad tried reading a book by him and gave it to me... only after getting 1/3 of the way through. I didn't even try to read it but sent it off to my cousin in Afghanistan for the small library I seem to be building for the soldiers over there. :)

He's even read the paranormal romance I've sent over... guess it's the closest they can get to sex or porn. O_o

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

IT'S NOT JUST ME OH THANK GOD.

[mela-lyn.livejournal.com]

Ha. No. Good icon for that though... teehee

My 'headdesk' is much more... violent. Yours is more 'exasperation'.:)

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

LOL. I do have a couple of good *facepalm* ones too...