If you are reading a #book and find it really heavy going do you just give up and change #book or do you continue until the end? #books #bookstodon @bookstodon
@bibliolater @bookstodon i have a "50 pages rule" – if i don't find the book interesting, engaging or enjoyable during the first 50 pages, i usually drop it without second thought :) there are millions of books and only one me, why should i waste my time on something i don't like? #books #bookstodon
@tishkova I've reached page 940 and still struggling. I suppose I passed the 50 page mark a while back. The only silver lining in the cloud at this point is that there is just another 400 pages to go.
@bibliolater ouch! are you reading an encyclopaedia? 😁
at 940/1340 i'd continue just to toot later "i'm done with this blue whale of a book!", driven mostly by pure stubbornness
@tishkova I am not reading an encyclopaedia, but it sure does not feel far from a very repetitive, boring and long lexicon.
I don't want to name the book as the author has obviously spent a great deal of time and effort to produce it. Does he really need some person on the internet rubbishing his hard work?
@bibliolater i recall posting smth about In Cold Blood by Capote being a bit boring and not exactly true crime, while i was still at ~25% of the audiobook, and people started explaining it to me as if i'm not allowed to not liking a book 😬
it turned out to be okay, and it's a classic and bla bla and i don't regret reading it, but i still didn't like it so much, i've read better books 🤷♀️
@tishkova I see no problem in giving heartfelt constructive criticism if one is writing a review; however, trolling with the aim of causing offence is another matter.
@bibliolater negative review is not necessarily rubbishing, i find it totally fair to write honestly about things you didn't like. when i moved to mastodon and subscribed to the hashtags about books, i was a bit surprised to see only positive reviews, like there are only recommendations and not reviews.