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which starts getting much worse about, say, halfway through, and seems to stay bad, do you finish it? I'm doing so, but feel like I'm trodding through a mixed stew of feces and vomit (neck-deep, no less) |
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If I think movies or books are bad, I have no problems not finishing it |
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Not finishing them |
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I envy you. Back to the sewers for me.. |
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Yeah I'll usually drop it and move on |
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just drop it. it's just a book. |
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I have some weird inate sense which tells me it's good for me. Damn is that stupid. |
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yes. you are being stupid. |
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im actually reading a book, its about a submarine, wwII era its hard for me to read in teh summer time, to much to do |
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sorry Ceri JC, for some reason I thought having a fake thread was funny.. actually, I didn't. eh, 30 pages to go |
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I'd probably finish it - see if it gets better again at the end. Unless it's really painful. |
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I aim to, but I usually get bored of it |
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I used to sort of have that feeling, but there is so much information available in our information age I sort of came over it. I devised a system for when I read which may be more neurotic than helpful... the theory is that it will help me for when I re-read the book... and indeed it does make the book much easier to navigate.. the problem is I rarely go back to reread.., but anyway instead of underlining bunches and bunches of interesting parts, I simply draw a single line in the left margin adjacent to interesting parts, a double line next to very interesting parts and a triple line next to stuff that blew my mind. (this is only non-fiction). So after each paragraph I have to perform the annoying chore of grading it as a "blank", single, double or triple. After I pass by like 4 pages of text that deserve no line, I can just skim by without giving much effort until I find something interesting. Very few excerpts get the triple line ranking. Now that my books are being pre-selected by reviews and suggestions on amazon and the internet in general I find less uninteresting books. But still these can change in interest half way through, such as "the meme machine" and "a new kind of science". Plus as you learn stuff, you find new authors telling you stuff old authors have told you already so you can read fast until you hit something new. |
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w M w, this solidifies your place as my hero. that sounds like an awesome plan. Yeah, the internet really helps with pre-filtering; in the past few years my decent book to shit book ratio is probably 4x what it used to be. I rarely rarely go back to books I read before, however. Now and then I earmark a weird page, but it is rarely of specific value, it's usually something completely wacko. As novel as it sounds (that pun earns me a free concubine), your method also wouldn't work for me because these days I read for little details, and don't give a shit about plot. but you're right, I shouldn't read shit books to the end. |
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i loved that show! :D |
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blatant Simpsons rip-off! |
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"but you're right, I shouldn't read shit books to the end." ..like just about everyone has been saying in this thread.. |
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yeah, but it was so good. at least give it that much ;) |
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I didn't like it. :( |
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hey, more than slight antagonism strictly forbidden |
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You are my hero too. So, I aspire to be like you, but to be like you is to aspire to be like me, given that I am your hero. Therefore I aspire to be like myself.. and vice-versa... or something. Are you talking about a non-fiction book or a fiction one? There's some great books written decades ago, like this simple time life series I got for a few bucks. Back then some authors really treated their writing with care and simple humble anthropological elegance, if that makes sense. almost as if they couldn't forsee that their work would just become buried by heaps and heaps of information in the future.. which triggered the idea just now of whether each current year that goes by is the equivalent of maybe 30 years or something of prehistoric time, in terms of change. |
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