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Originally Posted by Ripplinger
Luckily I haven't picked out that many duds (duds in my opinion only, I'm sure) where I've been really tempted to just toss it. When I do though, I quickly skim over the boring parts and then take my time to enjoy the better parts. That way I don't spend months on one book that I'm not enjoying, and I do manage to get through it.
While those books aren't as enjoyable as the ones you can't seem to put down and finish in a few days, I feel better for some odd reason having finished it and not given up on it.
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I tend to agree. There are as many tastes in reading as there are readers and a book you loved might be one that puts me to sleep or vice versa. For that matter as Steve Allen pointed out in an article I read once some books are meant to be read at a certain age, not before or after as we aren't ready for them before a certain point and if they are read after another certain point (for the 1st time) we might find that whatever they might have taught us about the human condition is old news to us.