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Originally Posted by SeaBookGuy
To clarify, are some of you guys saying you always finish a book, even ones you don't particularly like, "on principle"? I could never do that ... nor could I limit myself to one book at a time.
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Not always but as Maggie said, some books that start out bad get better. There are times I ditch a book when the topic doesn't interest me or, most often, when I don't like the writing style or there are too many errors (either because of bad OCR or because it wasn't proofread and there are grammar/spelling mistakes).
When I must finish a book (eg because it's for a literature course) I tend to read it as fast as possible. The worst book I have read was
Portnoy's Complaint for American Literature. I remember starting it one night, putting it aside because I didn't like it and the next day I didn't have any classes I read all day to finish it.