Have you ever?

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Have you ever started a book, and thought, "This is really bad." But continued, thinking, "It will get better, surely." Then, looked up, realized you 1/2 way through, and it hadn't gotten any better. But, by then, you were so aggravated that you had wasted that much time on a book, that you felt you owed it to yourself to finish it? And the whole thing was a let down?

Well, that happened to me for the first time. Usually, even if it's not great, I'll find some redeeming qualities. Not this one.

So, if any of you have the urge to read "Queen of Blood" by Bryan Smith. Don't waste your time!
 
Hasn't happened to me, but my sister is an English teacher and she has told me of so many books like this.....

I usually read the dog books and so far like all that I have read:)
 
I actually did this with what's supposed to be an "American classic" - On the Road by Kerouac. I read it because as an English major I'd heard so much about it - how it started the beat movement and how Kerouac was such a genius - and I just couldn't finish it! I tried several times to force myself through it thinking Surely this will get better soon. But nope. I couldn't finish it.
 
It hasn't happened to me, no.
But if a book doesn't interest me in the first chapter, I simply can't read it...and I won't even bother trying to! I tried to read 'Fall on Your Knees' by Ann-Marie MacDonald. A LOT of people think it's an amazing book, but I just wasn't interested in the first chapter...so I put it down, and never picked it up again.
 
well, sometimes i find a book that is not good for the first 3 chapters then i stop reading it. i dont want to waste my time on a bad book while i could be reading a really good 1
 
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