Are there any books you finished for some reason and you think back that you’re never gonna get those hours of your life back?
For me, it was this Egyptian novel that was so horrendously and consistently terrible that I have no idea to this day why I finished it that it fills me with a blind rage.
I’m generally not one of those readers who are completists. I know some readers prefer to finish their books regardless of whether they like them or not. So again I have no idea why I finished that novel tho I hated it with every fiber of my being.
by BadWitch2024
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Not really. I don’t have the spare time to waste on something I don’t enjoy, so I have zero problems abandoning a book if I don’t like it.
Right now, because of recommendations, I’m about halfway through *Episode 13*. Apologies to those who liked it, but I think I’m hitting my limit on my finishing it.
I’ve gotten pretty good at DNFing, but *The Last Love Note* by Emma Grey was both long and awful. I finished it because it was my first BOTM book and I wanted to try a romcom, but it was not worth it. I should have trusted my instincts and not finished it after the first 20 pages.
The Count of Monte Cristo.
Angels and Demons (Dan Brown) was a real page turner that I resented getting hooked on. When I finished, I wondered to myself why do I bother to read this crap? I actually stopped reading for a bit, started back with shorts (and came to love Alice Munro) and the cliff hanger in every chapter can’t sleep til you finish type of thriller is now approx 0% of my reading mix.
ugly love by colleen hoover was soo bad, I stayed up until 5 in the morning to finish it bc I knew if I put it down I would not be picking it back up. but honestly I don’t regret finishing it bc I weirdly enjoy reading bad books late at night it’s low key funny
Not really.
I have learned from experience and use this knowledge to recognize when to bail out of a book that I am not enjoying.
Right now I’m reading The Guest List and I am only finishing it because I got too far in before realizing nothing happens the entire time. So now Im just crawling to the end so I can mark it read for my Goodreads yearly goal
Dune: Messiah.
Ugly cried
Yes! But just because I wish I haven’t read them so they can hit me like for the first time.
The Secret. Biggest dogshit and all those pages for them to tell you to manifest what you want. That’s it, that’s the secret. Read it very young so back then it didn’t bother me much but looking back on it I roll my eyes.
*Micro* by Crichton; except it wasn’t finished by Crichton as he had died prior to finishing it. The ending was just awful, awful, awful.