Do you force yourself to finish a book you don't like?

I generally finish any book I start by telling myself surely it gets better! The older I get though, the harder this becomes .

It depends why it’s horrible.

There are some books that I think are stupid and roll my eyes at, but I still finish them.

There are other books that just piss me off as I read them. Those books I stop.

Unless it’s a series and I know I’m close to the ending. Hunger Games third book was that way for me. First book disturbed me in the concept, but I appreciated the story. Second book was fine. By the third book when the animal things were chasing them, I was so pissed off at the weird story change that I was mad at myself the rest of the way through the book because I kept reading, but by that point I was 75% through the series and wasn’t going to let it beat me!


So, it depends. 😊

Normally, yes, I usually will finish a book even though I don't like it. The exception was "The Lovely Bones" - I hated that book and about 1/2 way though, I thought "Why am I reading this?" and it did stop that one but normally I finish it.

nope, not anymore

i'll also put down a book that i've started if i see that it has mostly bad reviews (unless I'm enjoying it of course), not going to waste my time!

Nope, unless it’s fke book club I do not force myself to read something I don’t like. If I’m not into the book within 100 pages or so, I have no problem putting it down. I don’t do that very often, so the book has to be pretty bad for my to not finish. Often I will just start skimming until the end.

Its funny isn’t it that the bad ones stay with you as much as the great ones. Lol

I’ve read hundreds & hundreds of books I can tell you my favorites and I can tell you what I hated but there’s hundreds in the middle I’m not sure I could recall.

I used to force myself but lately, no. I’ll stall out completely onreading so I would rather waste a bad book and move on than stall completely not reading anything because I feel obligated to finish the bad book. (Holy run on sentence bat girl).

I use Nancy Pearl'a Rule of 50:

www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/nancy-pearls-rule-of-50-for-dropping-a-bad-book/article565170/

No. don't torture yourself thinking it might get better. Chances are it won't.

Move on till you find a book you enjoy all the way through.

I used to, but I don't anymore. I am 60 years old and my want-to-read list has more books on it than I will ever get to. I will usually give a book 50 pages and if it doesn't grab me, I will quit. If a friend recommends it and I know we have similar reading tastes, I might give it a hundred pages before I make my decision.

Nope. Life is short and there are too many books to read a bad one.

Nope. I get all of my books from the library and usually several at one time. If I don't like it or can't get in to it, I put it in the bag to go back and try the next one.

Absolutely not, especially now that it is so easy to find out how it ends. I used to at least skim so I could see how the book ended, but now I just do a quick google search. There are way too many books to read and reread to waste times on ones that are poorly written or just plain stupid (Twilight, I am looking at you and your stupid sparkly vampires.)

I used too and then realized life is too short and I will read what I what and if I am reluctant to keep reading, I probably should stop.