At what point do you stop reading a book?I'm currently reading pic rel. I'm about 50 pages in and I'm thinking about calling it. The prose is fine, but the characters are meh, the setting is meh, I'm not really connecting or feeling anything as I read it. Frankly, it's pretty boring. I almost always finish books, but maybe not this time. What's your system? At what point do you call it?
literally just put it down and pick it up again some time if you ever feel like it
>>25264736But at what point? Surely one can't stop at the first inkling of boredom. Do you pick a page number, or a number of nights, or what? What's the stopping criterion?
>>25264730I will never understand why you all are so systematic about this shit. Reading is about having fun and learning, you can do whatever you want. The most I'll do is set a schedule of "read <broad subject> for x hours" and usually only then for technical or very dry stuff. Do whatever man, it's your life and your books.
i could tell u it was gonna be mid just from the nyrb cover. stoner is the only good book they publish.
>>25264742trivially false since they also publish dante
>>25264730>F-F-F-F-F-F-F-FILTEREDDDDD
Anyone check out the big Malaparte bio that dropped last year?
>>25264730Usually I'm stubborn enough to finish a book, even if I'm not enjoying it. But I make a specal exception for Dostoevsky. Christ, he is painful to read. I've only ever finished one of his books, and regretted even that.
>>25264788translated by a monolingual mick who just referenced every single translation available and made his best guess
>>25264902>best guessthanks for figuring out what translation is I suppose
>>25264730>What's your system?read a review & look at front/back coversthat is enough for now
>>25264730I'm weird because I can just read whatever, I'll pick garbage out of the little free book libraries and just read it even if it sucks. I also listen to music or watch movies I don't like lol. Tbh this is how I expand my tastes though, happened several times where something I thought I'd hate ended up surprising me. The only book I gave up on in recent memory was Rachel Cusk's Outline after about 100 pages. I'd say 100 pages is fair game, 50 pages isn't really enough for anything to happen for a lot of books
