Any one find it hard to get through a book?

[Jack O Lantern]

I rarely finish a book anymore and I don't know why.

Usually it happens like this, I see a book I'm interested in, check it out of the library and start to read it. After a day or two I'll be walking past the library, get interested and look around inside. I'll see a book that interests me and totally forget about the other book. Rinse, repeat.

Right now I have four different books I'm in the middle off, plus two trades and few comics. And I really don't have that much time on my hands anymore.

Probably have a short attention span.

Any one else with this problem?

[TinkTonks]

I do that, but it's mainly due to my hectic work schedule. I have a few different books started at the moment. Can never seem to get past a few chapters in either one. They seemed like good books, I just need more time!!

[adhokk7]

I sometimes read books that turn out to be utterly boring and it takes me a ridiculously long time to finish them, but I always finish them. It becomes less an act of edification and more an act of spite.

[Eggyman]

There's only one book I can remember not finishing: The Tommyknockers.

And I'm a massive Stephen King fan... go figure :huh:

[taskmaster]

There's only one book I can remember not finishing: The Tommyknockers.

And I'm a massive Stephen King fan... go figure :huh:

I have yet to find a person who got through the Tommyknockers. The only books I don't finish are books for school. I either read them within a couple of days or never finish them.

[adhokk7]

There's only one book I can remember not finishing: The Tommyknockers.

And I'm a massive Stephen King fan... go figure :huh:

Well, The Tommyknockers sucked, so you get a pass on this one. For perspective, I offer this: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33676.

[Ugfugly]

If I'm not hooked by the 2nd chapter I rarely waste time finishing a book but if I like it I usually finish reading within a day or so.

[Ugfugly]

Well, The Tommyknockers sucked, so you get a pass on this one. For perspective, I offer this: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33676.


LOL did he really write that for The Onion?

[Morg]

If the book boring yeah I would have a hard time but if I like it I'll read it all the way through....unless some dum dum interrupts me while I'm reading :mad: Never fails, I'm enjoying a good book while lounging somewhere and someone pops up and wants to chat :rolleyes:

[Eggyman]

Well, The Tommyknockers sucked, so you get a pass on this one. For perspective, I offer this: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33676.

:lmao:

See what happens when you get older? :D

She should've asked him about cashing the checks; I bet he didn't forget that.

If the book boring yeah I would have a hard time but if I like it I'll read it all the way through....unless some dum dum interrupts me while I'm reading :mad: Never fails, I'm enjoying a good book while lounging somewhere and someone pops up and wants to chat :rolleyes:

lol

Where do they 'pop' up from? Under your chair? From behind your desk?

[Morg]

:lmao:

See what happens when you get older? :D

She should've asked him about cashing the checks; I bet he didn't forget that.



lol

Where do they 'pop' up from? Under your chair? From behind your desk?

I sometime like to go outside when it's warm to parks or someplace where I can lounge and relax or pools.

[Addendum]

There's only one book I have never been able to finish: Aftermath by LeVar Burton.

Just avoid it. In the hands of a skilled writer, it could have been better. Instead you're left with the realization that some publishers will simply publish anything.

[Eggyman]

I just remembered another one I never finished: Eldest.

Not. A. Fan.

[Addendum]

I've never gotten into them either. Reminds me too much of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series.

[Eggyman]

I've never gotten into them either. Reminds me too much of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series.

I read the first one. Very simplistic; every chapter begins with him waking up, and every chapter ends with him going sleep... well, almost.

There's far too many books I NEED to read, so no time for something that doesn't enthuse me.

[C. Lee]

There's only been one or two books I didn't finish....but that was when I was a lot younger and had a shorter attention span.

[Addendum]

There's far too many books I NEED to read, so no time for something that doesn't enthuse me.

Same here

[Eggyman]

There's only been one or two books I didn't finish....but that was when I was a lot younger and had a shorter attention span.

Maybe now you're older you still don't finish them but forget that you haven't finished them. :yay:

[C. Lee]

Maybe now you're older you still don't finish them but forget that you haven't finished them. :yay:

Finish what?:huh:

[Eggyman]

lol

Well played.

[Jack O Lantern]

There's only one book I have never been able to finish: Aftermath by LeVar Burton.

Just avoid it. In the hands of a skilled writer, it could have been better. Instead you're left with the realization that some publishers will simply publish anything.


Geordi La Forge?

[Addendum]

Yup. He wrote a book.

He should have attended more writing courses

[mongoose-mania]

Since I'm always busy at school I never have time to read there and I fall asleep whenever I'm reading on the bus, so I've been having some trouble getting through certain books. Especially the book I'm reading now, it's moving really slow.

[tzarinna]

There's been a few books, but much like Lee it was in my youth that I didn't finish them.
Some I can remember were, "The Naked Ape", Gone With The Wind", "The Idiot" (actually I'm not sure if I finished this one), hmm I think that's it. I would've added "Running With The Demon" but I finished it finally after about 10 years. :O

Edit: I should add "Love in Vein II", I started it again, and again can't seem to get into it. So I've started reading two other books that are a lot more interesting to me. :(

[Joker]

I do the same jumping around between multiple books things, but I always eventually finish them. A good example right now is the first book in the Dexter series. I started it about a year ago, and haven't finished it, but still have my place marked and remember what was going on, and will go back to it one of these days and finish it off.

[Eggyman]

You should read that sh**, J. :eek:

I picked up the three books and got through them in about two days. Unpudownable... well, for me, at least.

[tzarinna]

Oh, "Interview With A Vampire", I don't think I was able to get through the first chapter.

[Manic]

I finished Interview With A Vampire, but I only managed to get about half-way through The Vampire Lestat.

[adhokk7]

I finished Interview With A Vampire, but I only managed to get about half-way through The Vampire Lestat.

I read everything through Queen of the Damned and I had to stop there. I enjoyed Interview, but the others were just too...bad.

[Poetic Chaos]

I have to love a book to read it at all. It has to be so good I can't put it down and finish it within a day or two. I can't get through any book if I don't feel that way. I'll know that within the first few chapters. And books have absolutely NO repeat value to me. My enjoyment in reading comes entirely from the curiosity of wanting to see what happens next. Once I know, I'm done.

I've never reread an entire book. I'll reread my favorite moments but that's it.

[Team Andino]

I actually love to read but it took me awhile to realize it since I was so busy reading crap that my High School kept pushing us to read for essays, tests, an exams. I didn't like being forced to read something that I had little interest in and it hurt my reading as a whole. Over the years since Ive been outta HS Ive slowly gotten back into reading. Ive mainly stuck with Sci-Fi stuff for right now but soon I'll move on to novels an autobiographies again and hopefully get back into the nack of reading again.