Is there anything more brainlet than finishing a book you don't like? Life is not that long, you're not learning much, and you're not even having fun.
Depends what you mean by "don't like"
I do what I want, even when what I want is to do is something that I don't want to do, faggot.
>>25222023Your opinion on a book only matters if you read it front to back, but even then people still fail to fully grasp what they read. Also. Yes.
what about the Bible?
>>25222023>you're not learning muchlearning about what you don't like, and especially why you don't like it, is useful knowledge
>>25222035t. Stockholm Syndrome from 17 years of schooling
>>25222024Fpbp
>>25222023If something is a classic I try to read it.I avoid watching movies based on books because I want to read the book yet and have a pure idea of the source material based on my own imagination. But many books that get turned into movies are trash. Fight Club and Godfather are not good literature. Godfather reads like a dime store novel and I hope Mario Puzo is grateful to Francis Ford Coppola for making his name remembered at all.
>>25223206The Godfather is so poorly written that I genuinely can't believe it worked as a film.
>me after dropping philosophiæ naturalis principia mathematica on page 7 because it was icky
>>25223206name 5 great books that became 5 great movies.only second-rate books can become kino.
I could make a statement about the classics, but more importantly I think the issue here is just that idea that if in one moment you find the reading unenjoyable, then you're gonna have to "force yourself" to keep reading the book, throughout the whole entirety of the book, from there on out, in order to be able to finish it. That's just not the case most of the time. If you don't have practice reading classics your first experience will be always halted by this way of thinking and you wont have any progress until you drop this idea and face the truth which is that if you find something unenjoyable you're likely just having a moment of boredom and it will pass, and you will probably be pulled back in the narrative later on. To me this is just about knowing your mind better, I do find bits unenjoyable when I'm reading a book, but then I keep going and I find bits that are enjoyable, and it goes up and down like that forever sometimes, specially when my attention isn't fully sold to the narrative yet. Your point seems like a reels-finger twitching to swiping away from classics the moment it gets boring, and then going "why wouldn't I swipe away? Is it gonna be life changing? I'll only stay if it is" and that's just called being trapped in your own dopamine addiction.
>>25226027And also to add to this, if on one day you find your reading unenjoyable you don't have to force yourself to keep going at all if you don't want to, I rarely do that to be honest, I have no issues finishing a reading session earlier than usual one day and going to do something else, sometimes your mind just isn't there in the story yet, sometimes your mind is busy with other thoughts that need to be thought out, sometimes you would just rather be doing something else, none of that is to be held against the author, but this all could be examples of finding a reading unenjoyable, and this all can become arguments against the author if you fail to realize where the discomfort in continuing to read is coming from, so by all means do just step away, do something else, and return to the book when your mind is more at a silent idle state and with plenty of energy and attention to give, to be able to fully dive in, as a classic would deserve. Don't hold it against the author.
>>25222023I regret reading the Trial, like I get what Kafka was going for but the actual book is so fucking boring to read
>>25226021nta but i can think of>A Clockwork Orange>Satantango>Woman in the Dunes>Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland >Mouchette
