Reading for fun...

[fajrdrako]

for August 26, 2010: If you’re not enjoying a book, will you stop mid-way? Or do you push through to the end? What makes you decide to stop?

There are two reasons to read books: for information, or for pleasure.

If it's a book I'm reading for information, I'll read until I get the information.

If it's a book I'm reading for pleasure, I'll stop when I realize I'm not enjoying it. That probably won't be mid-way through. It will probably be less than fifty pages into it. If a book meant for pleasure isn't pleasurable, it's a waste of my time.

I would read more, probably, if someone whose taste I trusted had really enthused over it, or if it were part of a series in which I'd loved the other books.