Do you always finish a book?

I had a writer I loved, but I just couldn't get into one of her books. I finally got past the boring beginning & finished it, but I just had a terrible time with her beginning in this one book. She does have a series I don't care for & decided after reading a bunch of them, that I shouldn't punish myself reading them if I really wasn't enjoying them. Sadly, toward the end of her life, she was almost only writing those.

This is horrible. Once I start a book as long as I'm more than 50 pages in, I don't care how boring or unimaginative it is I HAVE to finish it. Normally if it's a book I like I take my time and I will read it in a couple days. If it is a book I hate I will finish it in a few hours just to get ride of it. LOL. I tried to not finish a book once (Charles Dickens tale of Two Cities) Ugh! The thing kept coming back to haunt me. I would see it everywhere. In movies, and store windows, there were references to it all over....So I bought to thing and read it within 3 hours and haven't thought much about it since.

I will eventually read the book v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y. That means I will read a page at a time, maybe every week or so, or pick it up when there is nothing else to do. It may takes years, but I will finish it. Mind you, if you want to not read it anymore, it is usually better to rush through it. So I guess my method of slow torture isn't working that much.

I don't buy the books in which i'm not interested, so i often finish a book if i pick it up. of course, i can't read it over once. when i want to read it, then i pick it up and read a few hours, then go on to do other things. frankly, it is up to one's mood. if you have a good mood, then you will easily concentrate on your book, if not, then you can't read it, although it is your favorite book.

I use to always finish the book I was reading no matter how bored I got. I always thought there would be some redeeming quality in it. It got published after all. Now I'm not like that. If I can't get into a book and after a while I'm no further than the 100th page because I can't bring myself to keep reading, I adandon it. Sometimes I'll come back to them later when I'm in a different frame of mind and sometimes they'll go back on the shelf and stay there. I usually get rid of all these books by sending them to a second hand store or charity. Someone may like reading them after all.

Sometimes, when it is very interesting. If it is not and already took me three days and I have not even finished half, I already put it down and find a more interesting book.

if it is interesting i glued to it until i finish it...else i may just drop it and move to someother book...i like science fictions and thrillers

depends upon the book . and the type u know is very much depends. novels and thrilling stories i will finish at one strdtch . some times it will take many a days to finish

Me,i finish a book once i started it. No matter how many days, or how many hours, i will finish what i started. sometimes you will find a boring book but i finished every book i choose because it has always a mystery inside. I admire writers that create a fascinating story.

Usually, yes. I always give a book a chance. Even if I don't like a beginning I give it a few chapters to get me into it. And usually it gets better. There was one book though, that I started reading...and I just couldn't go on! It was like torture! lol. I didn't want to give it a chance =P

There have been books that I have left behind in airports that where so bad I could not read them. I also have found a books that where so bad that I have flung them across the room. I am reading on that was an Oprah book club it is sort of boaring but soart of good. It just drags on and on. Oh well I will try to finish it.

I susally finish a books once Ive started the, In fact I 've a nearly always finished books that I found boring. On the other hand if I find a book disgusting I'm likely to leave it pretty much after 20 pages or so .. If i think thats its going to continue on a theme I cannot stomach I might just leave it .I have a rather vivid imagination...and a weak stomach :-P... Í then get rid of the offending book!

well, i dont have a page limit. i usually try to finish it from start to bottom unless i cant take it anymore (which is usually rare)...but there was book that i tossed out of frustration because the plot was dragging so ssssssslllllllloooooowwwww...you get the picture... and i try to read books progressively. i dont read it from back to end. that's so anticlimatic... LOL... and i try to reread books i hated too...but sometimes, i regretted doing that...after second try, i will toss to my donation bag...LOL...good riddance, boring book!

It really depends on how the author captured my interest. It depends on the beginning chapter. if I find it interesting or felt intrigued, then I can read it all.Harry Potter books are examples. Nicholas Sparks' books, too, especially The Wedding. I have read some Paulo Choelo books, but bno quite.

i come back to it sooner or later lol and i think this was in another post months ago or something similar to iy hugs

I have most of the time always finish the book I read. I always make it a point when a buy a book, that they should really be of interest to me and and I peek inside before I buy, just to see how it is. But recently, there was a big sale in my local bookstore and I had to buy several books, I just couldn't resist. These books that I bought were still sealed so I didn't get to peek and get the feel of how the book was being told. Anyway, I started the first one and I'm halfway to it already, but I can't be that excited to read any further. It's quite boring and strange. I haven't started reading the second one though, I just feel maybe I would be able to finish this one first. Well, good luck to me. Ho-hum.

No I don't always finish a book. Sometimes some books are so boring that I would just put it aside and read them later. I think we should enjoy ourselves during the read and there is really no point to struggle through the book for the whole time. I would put the book away and see if I would want to read that later.

Well i used to like reading a book through once i started it, especially if it's a fantasy/sci-fi book. But nowadays i only read a few chapters if i have the time or if it interests me to continue reading the book. Otherwise it just lies there waiting for me to read it. ^_^ I get to read it through eventually but it usually takes a lot of time before i finish it 'coz i just read chapters at a time.

I usually give a book about a quarter of its length to work out any slowness etc. If I'm not into the work by then, it's time to go on to something else. Sometimes, I will retry a book I'd previously abandoned in the hope that I'll deem it a better read with a fresher, clearer perspective. It worked with George R. Stewart's Earth Abides, and I'm going to try it with the Hary Potter series. Wish me luck. :)

Yeah, Ofcourse I would Like to finish that boring book! I just enjoy boring books as well :D If I am get bored from that book I usually think about author that in which Circumstences and in what conditions he has written that book!