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Originally Posted by patrickt
A. I live in Oaxaca, Mexico, and prefer to read in English. So, for twelve years I read what I could find. It wasn't totally hopeless but sometimes it got a bit grim. With my Kindle I can read what I want to read.
B. I used to read series but have abandoned most of them. I got fed up with Mathew Scudders alcoholism and AA fundamentalism. I got tired of hearing about Kay Scarpetta's lesbian niece who was the FBI agent. And Inspector Ian Banks' love life is a bore.
C. I agree with a previous poster. When I bought paper books and lugged them home I tended to read them. Now, if a book a bad I'll dump it. My record was a book that started with five pages of detailed torture and when it shifted to the gang rape of the tortured woman I dumped it. I think I was on page six.
D. FWIW, when I was working my reading was 98% non-fiction and was work-related. Once I quite working I flipped and now my reading is 95% fiction.
E. I know it's just a business but I appreciate Amazon making the first Kindle, pursuing the market when it was almost non-existent, and being a source of books for me to read. Thanks, folks.
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My record for giving up on a book was about the same. I bought it back when I was a teenager because the blurb on the back compared it to Tolkien (this was during the first Tolkien craze in the mid 70's). It started with an illicit act on a sheep. I tossed it in the garbage. What was funny is that my mother got it out of the garbage and because it had a colorful cover, put it in the bookcase. For years, she had a hard core porno book in the living room bookcase. Being a typical teenager, this provided me endless mirth.
I don't think I ever got around to explaining what the book was about to her.