Do you feel guilty if you don't finish reading a book?

sophiachic · Post by **sophiachic** » 24 Feb 2014, 03:27

yes as i feel i should find out how it ends, it might be good after all.

Scorsee · Post by **Scorsee** » 24 Feb 2014, 19:35

I used to feel really guilty if I didn't finish a book...but now I'm okay with it. If I find myself staring off at another book I really want to read I usually set it down, accept defeat, and pick up the other book.

fari30 · Post by **fari30** » 18 Apr 2014, 13:57

Not really, I can quit a book if it doesn’t catch my attention or isn’t quite what I was hoping for. However, sometimes, I wonder what’s next and if I had missed something great.

Uthar902 · Post by **Uthar902** » 19 Apr 2014, 11:59

I always have and i always will feel guilty when I do not finish a book. That s why it never happened so far. I might stop reading a book because I dont like it but then after some time I will grab it again and still finish it

Timea · Post by **Timea** » 19 Apr 2014, 12:41

Usually I finish my books, even if they are bad. Sometimes it might take a while to finish one because I tend to read more books at once.

njaco01 · Post by **njaco01** » 19 Apr 2014, 13:12

Yes, no matter what book. It completes the train of thought in my head.

scriptbunny · Post by **scriptbunny** » 29 Apr 2014, 06:03

Ugh, I absolutely have to finish every single book that I start. Which is probably why Ulysses has been sitting on my desk for like two years...

casper · Post by **casper** » 29 Apr 2014, 07:38

I don't feel guilty if it's so bad I can't finish it. I'll have a look ahead to see if it gets better and if not there's no problem in abandoning it. I reread Ulysses last year (after about 30 years) and it was completely different to how I remembered it.

castor · Post by **castor** » 29 Apr 2014, 08:23

yes i feel guilty for every book i don't finish

Lovely_Ink · Post by **Lovely_Ink** » 29 Apr 2014, 08:25

I don't feel guilty if I don't finish reading a book... any more. If the book is so poorly written that it will taint my view of the author I'll stop reading it. I don't want to get to the point where I judge all books by a particular writer by my dislike of one of their works.

kallee · Post by **kallee** » 29 Apr 2014, 08:35

I don't feel guilty at all. I read for pleasure and want it to be a fun experience. Sometimes I don't like the writing, or I may find language or other things continuing to be offensive and then I close it up and don't look back.

swtazhny · Post by **swtazhny** » 29 Apr 2014, 08:58

I do if the book was really good and for some odd reason i may have got caught up in everyday life and just didntfinish it.

anomalocaris · Post by **anomalocaris** » 29 Apr 2014, 13:05

Not at all. I'm involved with 2 research teams on top of my full time job, so time is a valuable commodity to me. I'm not going to waste the little leisure time I have on forcing myself to read something I'm not interested in.

lina8 · Post by **lina8** » 29 Apr 2014, 13:12

I usually have a hard time not finishing a book, but if it is something I can truly not stand after reading 3/4ths of the book, I let it go. Some books no matter how much other people enjoyed them never appealed to me, but I'll try reading it again after a year or more.