How often do you drop a book? Do you pick any back up again?
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Most recent book I dropped was Tales From Earthsea or whatever the book is called
Shit movie shit book
I do not think I have ever dropped a book and I am an old gay who probably has read ~200 books a year for over 20 years now. It is not exactly a massive commitment to read most books and I do not understand why so many drop books so readily.
Just realized I probably read the meme trilogy before most here were born. That one kinda hurt.
>an old gay who probably has read ~200 books a year for over 20 years now.
That's many times more than most people who have ever lived. You can't expect everyone to read that volume consistently.
>It is not exactly a massive commitment to read most books and I do not understand why so many drop books so readily.
If you are a slow reader, a normal novel can take 8-12 hours. People don't even finish movies that are 90 minutes long.
>Just realized I probably read the meme trilogy before most here were born. That one kinda hurt.
That's cool. Don't care about your age. How big is your library?
I don't expect people to read as much as I do, I just don't understand why people don't finish what they start and realize it tends to be a pattern beyond reading or becomes a pattern. I probably have around 1000 books, I do not keep most books that I read, I do a yearly purge.
it's the (maybe perceived) pain of wasting my time on something I'm not enjoying. Granted I'm not actually doing anything better with that time gained, but it's definitely not spending more time with a piece of media I don't enjoy
Just because you are not currently enjoying something does not mean it will not turn out great and even if it does not that does not mean you will not get something of worth from it.
I agree with that. But I find it hard to continue in the hopes that something I don't enjoy will turn out good. If in the end it never turns out good, I'd chastise myself for having spent the time on a shitty book.
Personally I wish this wasn't how I functioned either. on some level I can even tell myself there's a merit to even bad books, but emotionally I'm so antsy in fearing that I truly will end up wasting my time.
How do you do it, what do you feel at the end of a "bad" book that never got good.
You get what you put in. Even if I don't care for a book it provides insights into society, culture, the people who enjoy it, etc and generally the author provides something as well, at the very least provides their perspective on literature and something of themselves even if that was not their intention. Reading is about more than the literal book.
Most books leave me feeling about the same at the end, a sense of completion, a little more knowledge and understanding and some new stuff to think about. It is only the few that make me feel different and those are the books I have to fight the urge to go right back to page one after I finish them, the books I read all the rest to find and I will never know if a book will be one of the few if I don't finish it.
Most books are boring enough that there are many more much more fun things I could be doing
>does something fun instead
>while doing fun thing misses out on so many other fun things which very likely would have been more fun
>frick it, heroin is easier and I won't care about the fun things I am missing out on
I read 3 to 4 hours a day: after breakfast for about an hour, on my lunch break, and for an hour or two before bed, still have 5 or 6 hours a day left for fun. How many hours do you spend on the internet everyday?
Like, 6? Because it's more fun?
>>does something fun instead
doing fun thing misses out on so many other fun things which very likely would have been more fun
>>frick it, heroin is easier and I won't care about the fun things I am missing out on
Unironically yes
You need therapy, it will help you understand why you feel the need to do things you don't enjoy. What are you running from?
I don't enjoy cleaning but I do enjoy a clean and orderly home and I do enjoy reading even if I do not enjoy the book I am reading. Anyways, time for work.
I enjoy cleaning. Sometimes I do things I don't enjoy but only in extreme situations
When you're in bed dying you're going to look back and consider that maybe you shoulda just did more things you liked.
When this anon's on his death bed, he will mutter to his crying family:
>I wish.... I played more vidya .... *BEEEP*
The funny thing is the unrealistic part if this scenario isn't the video game thing. It's believing that any of you aren't dying completely and utterly alone.
Nice projection homosexual. Not all of us are white.
For real. Man will not be like "I wish I spent more time reading stuff that I don't enjoy" he'll be like "I wish I had more fun and drank more beer"
Those things aren't the same. The cleaning is guaranteed to lead so something you enjoy - by your own admission. There's no reason to assume that risking even more time into something you're getting nothing out of will lead to the same kind of enrichment as cleaning, which has that certain outcome.
He already told you what the certain outcome of reading something bad is.
>Even if I don't care for a book it provides insights into society, culture, the people who enjoy it, etc and generally the author provides something as well, at the very least provides their perspective on literature and something of themselves even if that was not their intention. Reading is about more than the literal book.
Do you people read what someone has said or just impulsively react to one bit you skimmed?
Except that's bullshit. There are absolutely books that provide no insight or perspective.
>There are absolutely books that provide no insight or perspective.
Name one.
>off to work
>he said
Pathetic
>You need therapy for getting longer term pleasure from learning!
Life is way too short and there are way too many other ways to spend my time to justify risking more time into something I'm not enjoying. If there wasn't anything else to do, then sure. But there is anything else to do, and that prospect is better.
Recently dropped this nuclear apocalypse book called Swan Song half way through. It was just a huge mess of one dimensional characters and weird tropes. I expected something a little rougher but it came across more like an action movie, so I couldn’t bring myself to care for the characters
I get easily distracted by other hobbies and activities. If a book isn’t engaging to me I don’t bother to push through it. It actually becomes kinda painful to do so
more and more every year; no
Had to drop most of Alice Munro’s oeuvre, as every single short story — especially in Dear Life — is the woman celebrating her infidelity
i drop about 50% of everything. books, movies, series
In four decades the only book I have never finished that I have started was The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Everything else I made it through no matter what once I started it.
It seemed very well written but the issue was that I was being force fed opinions through fiction in a way that bored me worse than any dry text book.