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Originally Posted by Fbone
Therefore, I won't rate the book as it's not the authors fault I dropped the book. Reading a short sample usually keeps me from the one or two star books.
However, I have started to post a short message as to why I abandoned these books. Goodreads allows you to do so without giving it a rating. Despite my best efforts, I still abandon more books than I finish.
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I don't rate anything I didn't finish, but I do give a review. I comment on anything I did like, and why I couldn't finish it or whatnot. I decline to give it a star rating. I'm comfortable with that. I feel like I spent some time on the book, so I want to acknowledge that and offer any readers my own thoughts about what I did read. I read one that I just couldn't get into at all (and I really, really try hard!) *but* I actually thought it had some merit and was well-written, etc. I just couldn't get into it. A few weeks later, the author mentioned that the book had been picked up by a publisher. I think that's awesome. The book wasn't bad at all, it just wasn't for me.