@aashisha
Aashisha Chakraborty
@aashisha · 4:59

Does it make sense to finish reading a book if you're not enjoying it?

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I think an author pours his or her heart out into their body of work and it's worth it to kind of give some time to it. But also once a reader gives their time they want to get the worth the time's value out of it. So it's a difficult question, I don't have a clear answer to it, but all I can see is that give the author the benefit of the doubt for at least the first 5200 pages

Does it make sense to finish reading a book if you're not enjoying it? #thewritescene #thereadingcommunity

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@Ramya
Ramya V
@Ramya · 2:56

Is there a book that you have abandoned? Curious!

But I don't regret it because there were some absolutely inspired bits in the book that I would have missed had I just given up. So, yeah, some books are held to read, but I think, as you said, we need to give them a fair chance. But I really wanted to ask you, Aashisha, have there been any books that you have actually abandoned midway because you just couldn't go through with them? I'd love to know
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@avichand
Avi Chand
@avichand · 4:48
But when you empathize with the character, you want to know that they made it home safely or that they won, or if it's some sort of a tragedy, then what happened to the character? And that's what I tend to remember in fiction. So I don't know if it's a strange thing, but I barely fall in love with the characters, and then I love to see where the novel goes
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@stuti.roy02
Stuti Roy
@stuti.roy02 · 4:45

#GiveTheAuthorAFairChance

So, just like I stuck with sense and sensibility and it has slowly become one of the best books I've ever read. And I have continued to read many more classics up to that, from the learning I got from that. The first few pages are not always what decides the whole book. The whole book decides the whole book. The plot of the whole book should decide the whole book and then it is up to us whether we like it or not
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@Ishika_808
Ishika Jha
@Ishika_808 · 2:06

@aashisha

Hi. Aashisha. I like to swell roscott swell. And I also believe that if the author is not able to grab your attention in the first 15 to 20 pages, you should still give the author a chance. And yeah, there are books that exist that do not takes a lot of time to build and grab your attention, so you should read at least 50% of the book, as you said. I completely agree with that. You should give the author a fair chance
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@the_skills_lab
Dennis Serrano
@the_skills_lab · 4:58
And I'm going to the book to read the content or index and check where is the information I need, in which chapter can I find the information I'm looking for? And then I go directly to that chapter to read. If what I'm looking for is in reality, there it's explained, I can find a different perspective. I'll be able to question what it's been written by the other
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@aashisha
Aashisha Chakraborty
@aashisha · 3:11

@Ramya

Now, the second option, I mean the second situation is when the writer has not written things engaging or valuable enough to the reader. So that is, the writers take the reader's time for granted, which happens very less, but it has happened. So but as a good faithful reader, I would say that it's worth reading everything, even if just to give feedback or to realize what you like. So I answered your question
@aashisha
Aashisha Chakraborty
@aashisha · 3:55

@avichand

I think it makes a lot of sense because readers also have limited time and you can't read all the books in the world. So of course there has to be a choice, there has to be a criterion using which you will shortlist the things you want to read. So it makes sense that if the world building takes a lot of time, then you move to a book which is more your taste and more your genre
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@aashisha
Aashisha Chakraborty
@aashisha · 3:20

@stuti.roy02

Sometimes the writing side is so engaging, the writing side is so good. Maybe there will be someone who's an astronaut might be like pigmentosis because they'd be like oh, this is how it happens in a world from my world. And this is how things, contradictory things because it does so happen that books are sometimes meant for certain readers, certain genre speakers, if I may say so. And then some books are despite genres
@aashisha
Aashisha Chakraborty
@aashisha · 2:03

@Ishika_808

So do read so well and let me know if you guys could actually finish the book that I have written as my debut novel. In fact, I started writing this right for both two short stories, Chand novels and then finally novel. So I've kind of been there, starting from scratch. So I would definitely like to know how you feel about the book
@aashisha
Aashisha Chakraborty
@aashisha · 5:00

@the_skills_lab

And this would decide whether you leave a book or you continue a book, whether you have the patience to continue, or whether you do not have this time or the mind space or even the need probably to finish a book because you were never a reader in the first place. It totally depends on the kind of reader you are. And I think we as writers and we as readers also tend to be I mean, tend to fluctuate in our reading habits on a daily basis
@JordanTepper
Jordan Tepper
@JordanTepper · 2:16
I try to give them some of that grace, because a lot of the times, the first book is setting up and establishing character building, character development, building scene development, and it could take a little bit longer in a series of books. And a lot of the times, I found that the first couple of books in the series are great, and then it just keeps going on and on and on, and I don't really necessarily see a destination. I will give it a try
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