I don’t really know a non-boring answer for this week’s question, so I am going to answer last week’s question (which I asked back when I was writing for The Book Stacks).
Life is too short to read bad books.” I’d always heard that, but I still read books through until the end no matter how bad they were because I had this sense of obligation.
That is, until this week when I tried (really tried) to read a book that is utterly boring and unrealistic. I had to stop reading.
Do you read everything all the way through or do you feel life really is too short to read bad books?
I no longer have such a dedication to reading books all the way to the end if they are not good books. You’ve seen my to be read list; so many books and so little time means that I’ve lost the patience for ‘bad’ books.
My ‘bug bears’ are heaps of typos and/or lousy plot. I’ve never stopped a book for anything other than what I considered to be atrocious writing. (As in I’ve only put down one or two books in my life.)
Life is too short for horrible books.