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I don't know about you, but I've always been a bit of a book masochist.
You know. You get a book from a "favourite" or "popular" author and you start reading it. Ten pages in you fall asleep. Next day you start again and hit thirty pages when your eyes start clunking shut. You pick it up again and get to about page 100 when you flip to the last page to see how much is left. Then you spend several precious hours of your life finishing what you already knew was a very disappointing read.
Back when I bought every book I would read that's what I did.
Nowadays the library is my second home.
As well as saving money on book purchases (us retirees are a frugal lot) I'm also saving precious hours of my life (us retirees have, by definition, fewer of those left than most!)
I've not finished the last three books I've started. They were all dogs - by well-known authors (I won't name names.) But unlike my past self, I can now get a few, or a few dozen, pages in and call it quits. Nothing invested - nothing lost.
I should have adopted that approach years ago.
Here's a question: name that one book that you really wish you had never taken the time to finish reading.
I'll go first: Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Ecco. I read the whole thing and still have no clue what it was about.
Jeff
You know. You get a book from a "favourite" or "popular" author and you start reading it. Ten pages in you fall asleep. Next day you start again and hit thirty pages when your eyes start clunking shut. You pick it up again and get to about page 100 when you flip to the last page to see how much is left. Then you spend several precious hours of your life finishing what you already knew was a very disappointing read.
Back when I bought every book I would read that's what I did.
Nowadays the library is my second home.
As well as saving money on book purchases (us retirees are a frugal lot) I'm also saving precious hours of my life (us retirees have, by definition, fewer of those left than most!)
I've not finished the last three books I've started. They were all dogs - by well-known authors (I won't name names.) But unlike my past self, I can now get a few, or a few dozen, pages in and call it quits. Nothing invested - nothing lost.
I should have adopted that approach years ago.
Here's a question: name that one book that you really wish you had never taken the time to finish reading.
I'll go first: Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Ecco. I read the whole thing and still have no clue what it was about.
Jeff