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posted by [identity profile] a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com at 02:33pm on 17/03/2007
I see no reason to finish a bad book, or one I just don't like. If it's non-fiction I need to read, then I'll doggedly push my way through ... but then, that's what gutting is for, isn't it? Probably the only exception is series fiction where there is a defined end. Hence the fact that I shall finish G.R.R. Martin's Fire and Ice series, even though books three and four have thoroughly pissed me off. I feel like I have invested enough time that it doesn't make sense at this point to just stop. It's kind of like a dysfunctional marriage at this point, though. Giving it one more try, even though you know it's not really going to get better, and just hoping it won't get worse.
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posted by [identity profile] jodihoover.livejournal.com at 02:37pm on 17/03/2007
HA, I was sooo pissed when I figured out that book three was not the end. I had waited until I thought they were all out to begin so I could just read them straight through.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 03:12pm on 17/03/2007
When I was an undergraduate, a good friend of me repeatedly recommended the Wheel of Time series. I said I would read them when the whole series was out. At this rate, I may never read them....
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posted by [identity profile] svb1972.livejournal.com at 04:55pm on 17/03/2007
I read the first 5
And then I found that I was dreading the next one. Every time I read the Wheel of Time, I fervently wished someone would kill every single female character in the books. So, I just stopped halfway through book 5, and never looked back.

I wish I could get the time I spent reading books 3 and 4 back too. Though I really enjoyed the first 2.

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posted by [identity profile] arcana-mundi.livejournal.com at 03:48pm on 17/03/2007
My dad and I were reading those books together, but he got so furious with them after the wedding party massacre that he threw the book at the wall. Which... hurt the wall more than the book. And he's a pretty placid man. I've washed my hands of the series - to read the latest would require reading back, and I can't bring myself to go through that again. No matter how much I'd like to know what becomes of Jon. I suppose someone can just tell me? (She said hopefully).
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posted by [identity profile] a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com at 12:07pm on 18/03/2007
remind me after the last one comes out ... he left out lots of characters in book 4
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