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Old 08-04-2010, 12:12 PM   #12
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I voted YES, although it happened to me few times (probably less than 10 out of several thousands books I've read) to quit. They were either too boring or I didn't like the style or whatever and I didn't want to continue. Just an example: Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" - I really couldn't stand it and I admit - I don't like sentences that start at the beginning of one page and finish in the middle of the next one.
I have been reading Proust on and off since I got a reader, and I get the feeling I sometimes pick it up, start reading in the middle of a sentence, read a few pages, then stop reading, and that same sentence is still running
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