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Originally Posted by Laz116
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.
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As someone who has read the entire unabridged version of "Les Miserable", I think I've earned the right to jetison a book if it falls down early and hard.
-David