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Originally Posted by ElSapo
I'm curious: How often do you guys start a book and then stop before finishing it? I've done this a couple of times in the last month.
I'm quite selective about what I pick up. These days I have so many recommendations from people with similar tastes that it's rare for me to encounter a book I don't like. But then, as in the past, I give a novel a hundred pages before I decide it's not worth my time. Some writer's styles are so weird it's like reading another language, but once absorbed the story is too compelling to put down. Others, like J.K. Rowling, I knew I would not enjoy in the first few pages but gave it the good old hundred page chance anyway.
So to answer your question, not often, but when I do it is without hesitation.