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Do You 'Give Up' On Books?
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I used to be very reluctant to give up on any novel but I find myself doing it more and more often, I totally lose patience.
I gave up on a book I had been looking forward to reading three quarters of the way through last night. I think my concentration is not what it was. It was translated from Norwegian and I couldn't remember if characters were male or female and kept mixing them up.
Or maybe it's because books are so easy to come by these days I always have a few queued up to read.
I gave up on a book I had been looking forward to reading three quarters of the way through last night. I think my concentration is not what it was. It was translated from Norwegian and I couldn't remember if characters were male or female and kept mixing them up.
Or maybe it's because books are so easy to come by these days I always have a few queued up to read.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I haven't read anything by Richard Osman and all the reviews have been bad.
Zacs, I think you've raised an excellent point there - the internet is certainly a distraction and helps foster a butterfly mind, much less concentration and there is always the hope there is something more interesting, quickly found on another thread, another website.
Zacs, I think you've raised an excellent point there - the internet is certainly a distraction and helps foster a butterfly mind, much less concentration and there is always the hope there is something more interesting, quickly found on another thread, another website.
Ok, I'll admit to having read all three Richard Osman books. It depends what you are looking for - no-one, including the author sees them as great literature, but for light entertainment, why not?
Not a novel, but I was given a copy of Paul Newman's autobiography for Christmas and really had to struggle my way through it. All it did was convince me he was not a very nice person, certainly for much of his younger life.
Not a novel, but I was given a copy of Paul Newman's autobiography for Christmas and really had to struggle my way through it. All it did was convince me he was not a very nice person, certainly for much of his younger life.
I have various 'collections' in my kindle. one I have christened 'jettisoned' and another 'unreadable'.
I used to be willing to give the jettisoned books another go on the grounds that it could have just been my frame of mind, etc. when I was first reading but since my kindle collection like Topsy, just growed, I have been less inclined to revisit them.
The unreadable books have stayed that way, unread; they are usually recommendations, bargain purchases or freebies.
However, I do get a pang of guilt for discarding all of them.....
I used to be willing to give the jettisoned books another go on the grounds that it could have just been my frame of mind, etc. when I was first reading but since my kindle collection like Topsy, just growed, I have been less inclined to revisit them.
The unreadable books have stayed that way, unread; they are usually recommendations, bargain purchases or freebies.
However, I do get a pang of guilt for discarding all of them.....