MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - You read a book and it stinks. What do you do?

Moejoe · 08-23-2009, 02:11 AM

I used to have a rule of thumb:

A novel would get 50 pages before I dumped it. That was, I'd give it 50 pages and if it wasn't interesting enough to me, I'd dump it. A short story I'd give a couple pages, depending on the magazine, book.

Now I give novels 1 page to hook me and a short story 1 paragraph, two at most. I just don't have the time to waste on dull stories any longer (unless it's Don Quixote

)

08-23-2009, 02:11 AM	#69
Moejoe Banned Posts: 5,100 Karma: 72193 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: South of the Border Device: Coffin	I used to have a rule of thumb: A novel would get 50 pages before I dumped it. That was, I'd give it 50 pages and if it wasn't interesting enough to me, I'd dump it. A short story I'd give a couple pages, depending on the magazine, book. Now I give novels 1 page to hook me and a short story 1 paragraph, two at most. I just don't have the time to waste on dull stories any longer (unless it's Don Quixote )