I found that with RAMA...
jez
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Wayne Harridge wrote:
> >
> > I don't like to abandon a book part way though, sort of like admitting
> defeat, however it's probably better to do that than put it down and promise
> to yourself that you'll finish it later.
> >
>
> One of the epiphanies of my young adult life was about this. Through my
> teens and much or my 20s, I was a voracious reader of Sci-Fi. Although
> mostly crummy used paperbacks, I had the majority of it that had been
> published. Finally, I got a copy of a "great classic" that was quite
> rare. As I got into it, I was seriously bored.
>
> I trudged on for a while, convinced that I needed to finish any book I
> started. And it was a Classic, so it was bound to be good, right? Then,
> as I soldiered on, I realized it wasn't going to get any less than
> painfully boring and I honestly didn't care how it ended. So I closed it
> up and never went back.
>
> What a weight off my shoulders! It was like I had been relieved of some
> heavy burden. Now that I am several decades older, I know well that
> there are more books out there, or at least will be, worth my time and
> enjoyment than I'll ever have time to read.
>
> So now I'm happy to drop out of a book that isn't for me and move on to
> something else. Sure, I sometimes get fooled, and finish a book I could
> have well done without, but generally, I don't end up reading things
> that don't appeal to or educate me in ways I appreciate.
>
> One category of book that seems to me to invite partial reading is the
> ones that have a nice article's worth of content stretched to book
> length. A fair number of personal growth, religious and spiritual books
> seem to fall into this category. I get through the first couple or three
> chapters, scan ahead and find that the rest is just a spinning out and
> restatement that I don't need. I don't think I miss anything when I
> close these.
>
> An Optimal Moose
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