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Originally Posted by afa
I voted "Yes", but I admit there are a couple of exceptions.
A few years ago, when I was in my 'read anything by Michael Crichton' phase, I bought a book of his called Five Patients. Turns out it was a non-fiction book where Crichton recalled the events of one day in the hospital back when he was still a practicing physician. I fell asleep about 30 pages in, and never bothered picking it up again. Sometimes I think I should have at least tried; who knows, it might have ended up interesting.
The only other instance of my not finishing a novel was the one and only time I tried Tom Clancy. The book was called Red Rabbit, and I think I got about 150 or so pages through, and just couldn't read any more. Mind-numbingly boring. I never bothered with another Clancy again.
Apart from these two incidences, however, I always finish whatever book I'm reading. I know what kind of books will interest me, and am generally quite picky about which books I buy, so the odds of starting a book that I abandon midway are pretty low.
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I liked Five Patients. It was the one on his travels that stunk. I'll grant you Red Rabbit was a slow starter but it eventually picked up. Red Rabbit is part of a series so if you hadn't already read the previous books in the series, much of it might have not made much sense. Clancy's books
can stand alone but they are much better if read sequentially.