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Originally Posted by issybird
I couldn't rank them, of course, and different books appeal to different moods, but I think it's easy to make gross distinctions. Even just using the factors you cited, I can't imagine that every book scores equally highly in all respects.
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I've made a bunch of not-so-optimal estimates lately when it came to books I thought would be really exciting, and then turned out not to be my bowl of letter soup. But I think, at least for me, the only way to prevent that is to stick to the same authors, which I more and more feel is limiting. I've been trying out new (to me) authors, which comes at a "risk", because I want more exposure to different styles (and stories).
Actually, I think my *real* problem is that I have a hard time to put away a book that I don't enjoy. With novels, I always feel that I "have" to finish them, even if they are not enjoyable. It's very rare that I don't finish a book.
How do you folks handle this?