I don't like this book, but I'm determined to finish it!

Yes megamatt I am just like you...once I have started reading a book I feel obliged to finish it even if I am not really enjoying it! I think I am kind of hoping that it will get better the more I read and if I don't finish it then I'll never know will I,lol. I may put the book down and start reading something else at a point when I am really bored with it , but I will always go back to it and finish it eventually. I always know if I am not really 'into' a book because it takes me ages to read it whereas normally I am a very fast reader and can zip through a good book very quickly :o)

I have to admit that most of the time I will stop reading it if I cannot get into it. A few times I went ahead and finished a book I did not like.

I usually just stop reading it. Right now I have a book I am reading that is a little bit hard to follow at times, but that I like, I'm seeing it through until the end though I'm itching to start new books.

Yes, that happens to me most of the time especially when I just started reading the book. I'm usually like that, very slow at the beginning but gets faster towards the end part.

I usually carry on no matter how bad, but recently I started reading a book and I just COULD NOT get into it; the book was called 'The Sweetheart Season' by Karen Joy Fowler, and I didn't like it at all, I just couldn't get lost in it - I gave up after three chapters!! I am a loser, never mind, I read a much more interesting one instead!!

To me, that's like saying that the food you're eating tastes bad, but you're going to finish it anyway. There are more books than I'll ever have time to read. Why would I waste some of that precious time on something I don't like? If it's a school assignment, or something like that, there's at least a reason to finish the book. If you're reading for your own pleasure, what possible sensible reason could there be for reading something that's not enjoyable? It doesn't make you a better person. It doesn't do anything but waste your time.

I used to feel like I needed to finish every book, but soon gave that up. Some books I'll wade through if they're part of a series I like and I'll find that by the end they've picked up or if I have enough curiosity to see what happens. But, others, I realize that I don't feel like waiting for the possibility that they'll get better - a possibility that might not happen. The last really bad book I forced myself to finish was White Oleander, and I did that because a friend recommended it and I felt I owed it to her to finish it. Silly, because I don't think she would have cared and my life wasn't the least bit improved or given more enjoyment by getting to the end of that dreck.

I found this book and it had all the elements that should mean I would like it. It was time travel, my favorite SF topic... Never the Twain by Kirk Mitchell was the book, and it was so bad after a few chapters (like 100 pages) I skipped to the end of the book and when I couldn't figure out how the writer could get from where he was to the end, I had to finish reading the book. It ended up making sense, after a fashion. It just wasn't a very good book - I strongly advise against reading it.... http://www.amazon.com/Never-Twain-Kirk-Mitchell/dp/0441569730/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282193889&sr=1-1

I always try to finish a book that I've started, no matter how much I don't like it. The way I see it, I wouldn't know a good book if I'd never read a book I didn't like all the way through. Since I started finishing books I don't like, I find that I like more books than usual. Plus I have less trouble studying because I'm in the practice of reading and paying attention even though I really HATE what I'm reading!

I guess it really depends on the atrocity and genre I'm reading but I rarely put down a book so if I did it must be really, really bad and felt that continually reading it will be a waste of time.