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I think we all have our thresholds, mostly different ones, as to the magnitude of the flaws that we are prepared to tolerate. No matter how good the story, it is not worth persevering if it is unreadable. In the example I gave I was prepared to overlook what I see as some serious deficiencies because the book was not unreadable and the plot was interesting. I would of course prefer that the book had been very well edited and translated. But in the end I am happy to have had the opportunity to read it as is rather than not have that opportunity at all.
I do strongly agree that there is so much choice out there that it is simply not worth persevering with a book you are not enjoying. I am much more prepared now to abandon reading a book I am not enjoying than I used to be.
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