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Originally Posted by ametzler
I simply cannot reliably judge whether I will love the book at page 10.
There are some excellent reads that take some time and effort to get into. I would exchange these for books reasonably entertaining from start if I stopped early.
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Well yes page 10 might be a bit early. I commented that I generally give a book about 100 pages. I think everyone would have a point at which they would put a book down and not finish it. At what point one does that would be an entirely individual decision.
For me, I don't care how long the book is or how many books are in the series or what I might be giving up if I don't stick with it. I don't care if the book "might" get better down the track. I just see no sense in persisting with something I'm not enjoying after 100 pages. If an author is unable to grab my attention after that many pages then they just aren't for me. I'll go beat myself over the head with another hammer for a while and see if I enjoy that more.
