So I am reading a book right now and I'm really not digging it. The characters are shallow, the plot is slow, and it's salacious beyond my usual tolerance level. I will probably toss it aside, because it is just not worth the effort of completion.
Are you the sort of person who always finishes a book you start?
If not, do you have a certain cut
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Yes. I'm stubborn and I refuse to let a book beat me. I might put it down for a while and then come back to it later (which is why it took me over a year to finish Bleak House by Charles Dickens), but a book would have to be completely, hideously, irredeemably bad for me to give up on it completely. This is why I've kept James Ellroy's The Cold Six Thousand on my To Read Pile for a mammoth 5 years now. One day, I'll be strong enough to go back and finish it. One day ...
I'm the same way about movies. There's only ever been one film that I've ever walked out of before the end - The Next Best Thing starring Madonna (yeah, I know, the fact that it was starring Madonna should have been what tipped me off in the first place).
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Of course, it also helps that I read a lot of really dry non-fiction, so muddling through a bad novel isn't really that much of a headache. I mean, you spend enough time reading essays by Freud and even Twilight starts looking pretty appealing.
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In either case, when the CRAP detector goes off a few times in quick succession, the book is tossed. It's a case by case basis for me.
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