I caught myself doing that often and I felt guilty, but thinking about it is it that bad really? You've already read 100 or 200 pages of the novel, you've seen the prose, you've seen the style, the pacing, you're only missing how the story would develop further and the ending, but why would the ending matter unless you're reading detective stories or similar things?Share your opinion on that matter.
>>25312667You need a defense? Just drop the damn book.
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>>25312667>but why would the ending matter unless you're reading detective stories or similar things?strong disagree. insanely mistaken take.
>>25312671Fpbp. Why is OP even wasting his time?
>>25312667>why would the ending matter unless you're reading detective stories or similar things?holy shit, this is a bad opinion
>>25312667I agree. You could apply this to all forms of entertainment and art as well.Listen to only first 30 seconds of songs.Watch only first 15min of movies.Watch only youtube shorts.Shoot yourself at the age of 26.
I see where you're coming from in getting the gist of something at about 100 pages but I would say there's more to the engagement of literature than just getting the gist of a book. Perhaps you need to reflect on what you actually want out of this hobby.
I dropped 2 books this past year. Both of them were written by women. Neither of them were white.
>>25312667If you want to count books you’ve not read cover to cover as “read” then you should read history and philosophy instead of literature.
i dropped borges ficciones and kafka complete stories as well as suttree
>>25314631all this year, i mean
>>25314371>starting a book written by a poc or womanCringe
>>25314631>i dropped borges ficcioneswow filtered hard
>>25312667A lot of my favorite art seems to kind of work backwards. There's something remarkable that the artist can do that needs to be shoehorned into a consumable medium, be that a storyline or a song structure etc. A lot of what made the Jazz masters amazing was their improv, and that comes after the compositions. A climax can be the centerpiece, and what leads up to it is just a means to an end. Of course great work often plays with the stuff that leads to the point and that can be great too. If you don't finish the work, I don't think it's fair to say you've understood it. Of course not everything works this way, but a lot of my favorite art does. Some stuff just sucks lolThat said I put down books all the time if I'm not feeling it. If I feel like I'm going to want to come back to it some day I'll fill a little notebook page with notes and stick it in as a bookmark
I feel bad especially if I buy a book and not finish it. Feels like I wasted money.
>>25312667if you don't like a book you don't like it. but what you absolutely must not do is ask permission to not finish it as a grown man
>read the entirety of Dune in less than a week>put off finishing the final chapter for three whole years.FML. Apparently this isn't common, and I have many more books that I have left unfinished at the 90% mark.
>>25314695We don't talk like zoomer nogs here, Alok.
>>25314371you are so based my fellow kekistani and the tumblrinas have been sufficiently owned
>>25315875the word cringe is a zoomer nog word now?
>>25312717>watch only first 15 mins of movieThis hack actually works because most movies that have a weak beginning actually never get better.In other words, think of all the movies you love and count how many suck in the first 15 mins. None.
>>25316265the first john wick movieyawnfest for the first 15 minutesrest is epicsauce
