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3509993 No.3509993 [Reply] [Original]

How many pages do you give a book before you end up skipping it?

>> No.3510001

I never read more than 50 pages of any book.

>> No.3509999

I don't skip books.

>> No.3510010

>>3509993
I only read Title pages.

>> No.3510018

i don't know, however far i get before i decide it's uninteresting.

>> No.3510230

>>3509993

I don't make a conscious decision, I usually just stop reading when I lose interest, though I tend to go back and finish them unless they're absolute crap but I don't remember actually not reading a book. It all really depends on my mood too.

More than likely there's a page limit at which point I won't leave a book unfinished.

>> No.3510279

>>3510230
This. I don't make a conscious decision.

If I'm just mildly interested in a book and the first page is not attractive I may drop it right there.

But usually I just realize it later:
>hey, this book is next to my bed for a month and I haven't touched it since. I don't even care, you are going to the bottom shelf you underwhelming block of paper!
>god no! not the bottom shelf! aaaahhh

>> No.3510293

I've only quit one book, to the best of my knowledge. That was Radcliffe's 'Mysteries of Udolpho', about three-hundred pages in.

>> No.3510292

halfway

>> No.3510305

recently stopped reading jack london's "star rover" after 50 pages.

He was going too slow, I felt I could see his 'big idea' coming a mile away, and the prose was okay at best.

and that's my story.

>> No.3510322

There are very few books I've actually put down and not finished. I gave Isabel Allende The House of the Spirits about 100 pages before I dropped it--such an unbelievably shitty book. I kept thinking it was going to get good, but she's a totally unoriginal, watered-down version of Marquez with a bit of whiny feminism thrown in. I wouldn't give it a set amount, I just stop whenever I can't take anymore.

>> No.3510334

The only book I ever quit that was Atlas Shrugged, and I think I was about 300 pages in.

>> No.3512621

usually 70-140 pages in is when I quit

>> No.3512623

>>3510018
This.

*cue schopenhauer quote about bad books

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3512642

>2013
>not following Ted Brautigan's 100 pages rule

ISHYGDDT

>> No.3512948

If something leaps out at me and says "this book will be shit!!!" I usually drop it right then and there unless I'm so far in that I feel invested, and obligated to see it through to the end.

If its something I want to like, I will also cut it more slack unless I just end up rolling my eyes and sighing in exasperation every five minutes.

>> No.3512965

Only book I ever put down and never picked up again was The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel whatsherface. Horribly pretentious prose.

>> No.3512994

>>3512623
fuck that old man