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Originally Posted by DavidRM
I used to proudly state that I finished every book I started reading. (I can be proud of the oddest things.)
Now, though, I proclaim, "Life is too short to waste it on a bad book." 
"Merrily abandon with extreme prejudice" is my modus operandi. You have a few pages. Maybe even a couple short chapters. If the book doesn't click with me by then, out it goes.
-David |
Instantaneous entertainment or get out of here?
That certainly is a principle, but it also dismisses a lot of great literature.
I too have stopped reading bad/uninteresting novels to their dire end. But still a lot of books doesn't deliver instant gratification. They work in a different way. And in my opinion you have to come quite a long way in a story before you can actively dismiss it as not for you.