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Today I bring to you a question. What is your opinion on not finishing a crappy book? You see, I have been reading this book and it is dragging on and on. The main caracter is this self pittying weakling and I just can't bare to turn another page of his biography. Having said that, if I choose not to continue reading until the end, I might just miss out on the "twist" at the end which might explain the reason for the plot to carry on about....Well nothing really! Selfish, I know. I should either make the decision to quit or go on. Then live with it! Upon discussing this topic with a lovely client at work today, "if you put the book back on the shelf unread, it sits there to remind you that you have failed." said she. I couldn't agree more. Perhaps we need a "failed" section on the bookshelf, where we can stroke our egos by believing that it was not us the reader who failed, but the writer. Somehow I doubt I will have this section on my bookshelf.
Tell me where you hide your "failed" books.
tks jennine
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I call these left overs. You shouldn't feel like you've failed. Well I don't. Sometimes it's not the right time or you're not in the right headspace or lifestage for a novel or the novelist's own agenda.
These are the times to put them back on the shelf and put them in a spot that will remind you to read them later on.
Unless of course it's a crap author which usually becomes fairly obvious in the first 3 or 4 chapters...this is the kind that you'd probably throw in the bin since you're discusted that they were given a chance to publish such inane drivel.
This goes the same for movies and actors. A good director can be ruined by bad actors but a good director can save a flat story..just like a good author can make a boring subject the most interesting thing you've ever read.
Where do my "failed" books end up?
Usually on the bookshelves of one of my sons, along with ALL the other books they've borrowed
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