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02-02-2013, 05:09 AM
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Name: Deborah
Dog's Name: Laurel (maltese), Dewey, Violet and Hardy and Dewey
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Central Ohio
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I am like you Sylvia. I suffer through to the very end. The WORST book that I ever suffered through was. "The Time Traverler's Wife" I hated it , but read every word!
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02-02-2013, 07:42 AM
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Name: Terry
Dog's Name: Naddie, Quincy, & ( "Angel Missy" 8/11/94-7/19/05 )
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Upstate NY
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Oh yes, I have done that...keep thinking it's going to get better!..it doesn't! LOL
What really gets me though.. is reading a book I'm really enjoying then hating the ending! LOL ... like the ending is anti-climatic. I'm trying to think of one but it' isn't coming to me that I read sometime last year... Near the end and there was quite a twist ( but several pages to go...) then at the actual ending it was '''blah"!
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02-02-2013, 08:25 AM
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Name: Laura
Dog's Name: Jasper&Dusty; Alvin,Winston&Angel waiting at the Bridge
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: North Carolina
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I am signed up for a 'service' that sends me emails daily telling me about free books offered on Kindle. I get A LOT of them. Some of them are good, most of them suck. Since they were free, if I am not getting in to it, I delete the book and go to the next one. I have found some great books and new authors this way (some will offer their books for free to introduce themselves, then you go buy the rest cuz they are so good), and I have had to shake my head at others (why would anyone want someone to read this crap and associate their name with it??).
I always hesitate before pulling the plug though. I think back to some Anne Rice books that I have loved. Mayfair Witches started off so S. L. O. W. L. Y. I thought I would die of boredom before I could turn the page, but I stuck with it (because it was a hard back and I paid $30 for it-too cheap to 'waste') and all of the sudden it turned into a book that I couldn't put down. A couple of her books were like that for me, and I own every single one of her books, and not on the Kindle, in real live paper! So, in short, if it's free, and it sux, I move on. If I paid for it, I muddle thru (except for Watership Down...didn't get it!)
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02-02-2013, 08:29 AM
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Name: Nancy Wyant
Dog's Name: Mia
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Highlands County, Florida
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I don't finish a book if I don't like it. There are too many good ones out there. I'm reading John Edward's "Fallen Masters" right now. Its really good.
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02-02-2013, 11:03 AM
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Name: Sylvia
Dog's Name: MiMi, Ray and RuRu
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Healdsburg, CA
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I'm curious, Laura, did you read all of Ann Rice's "Beauty" books? Right now I have #2 on my kindle, but I haven't looked at it for months. Lightbulb moment!!!! When we were in school, we often had to read a particular book even if we hated it. That may be why we often feel obligated to finish a book we don't enjoy now.
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02-02-2013, 12:37 PM
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Name: Laura
Dog's Name: Jasper&Dusty; Alvin,Winston&Angel waiting at the Bridge
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: North Carolina
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 Read them a long time ago and thinking about them can still make me blush!
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02-02-2013, 01:06 PM
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Name: Sylvia
Dog's Name: MiMi, Ray and RuRu
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Healdsburg, CA
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 Oh my... For those of you who have no idea what we are talking about 
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02-02-2013, 01:13 PM
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Name: Aastha
Dog's Name: Gustave
Join Date: Jun 2012
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I read a lot of books at the same time, so often the bad ones don't get finished. I need to read many at once depending on what's going on around me. If I am alone and can concentrate, I read stuff that I am trying to learn (for example, finance currently), if husband is watching TV, I read serious fiction. If husband is watching TV and Gustave is trying to make me play with him, I read light fiction as I play fetch with him.
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02-02-2013, 01:42 PM
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Name: Courtney
Dog's Name: Ozzie "Poo Butt" & Lisa "Left Eye"
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Chicago Suburbs
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As a professional librarian, I am here to tell you all: YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO PUT DOWN A BOOK YOU DO NOT LIKE!!! hehe, hope that makes you all feel better
 I sometimes feel the need to finish a book I'm not into, but that is rare, usually I just lost interest and put it down...sometimes I finish it later, other times I don't!
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02-06-2013, 07:10 PM
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Name: Lynn
Dog's Name: Lacie, Tilly and Secret
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Rio Rancho, New Mexico
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I have a rule that if I can't get "into" a book by the third chapter, I just move on to another book. And, if it's a book for one of my Book Clubs, I just skip that month's meeting.
I read so many books and so quickly. I probably finish a book every 1-2 days.
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