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?