Drop it and go read something else. But I usually keep it around, ‘cos one day, I might be interested again. The last book I set aside was Joan Didion’s “The Year Of Magical Thinking”

If the book is excruciatingly boring, I go directly to the end and put the book away/ take it back to the library. If it’s less boring, I put it aside—maybe I might pick it up again when I’m in the mood.

If you’ve gotten into a book (as many pages as your age) and you still don’t like it then just stop reading it. I had to stop reading “shes come undone” because it was depressing and just not for me. I’ve since found many many other books that I enjoy. There are too many good books out there to try to read something you don’t like.

good luck :)

Will probably sleep? Or read something else.

i stop reading it, go read another book and then the next day try reading the “boring” book again =)

Hi – that is a good question, but the answer depends on the book itself
and the purpose for which it is being read.
investing, taxes, repair, etc. so I release myself from the need to actually
read the whole thing. I gloss over everything that does not pertain to
what I actually need to know. I write little notes on the material
that I need as if it were a subject in school and then I am done. If it
is my book then I am able to write in the book – I like to use
highlighters and blue ballpoint pens and sharp pencils – I circle words, write
definitions in the margins, etc. Making the book more active makes it
more interesting.
book (Moby Dick for example) and I am not getting interested, I put it
down for a while but don’t give up. It took me about 4 years to finish
T. Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon because I started it about 3 times. It helps
to get commentary on the book you are reading – either online reviews
or a book of reviews, etc. I also try to analyze the characters – are
they people I like, do they inspire me or mortify me, what would I like
to know about them, etc.
but what he read he was very choosy on. He would read slowly too. Not
because he had to read slowly, but because he was totally in the
moment. He would read – turn pages back to refresh his memory, stop reading
and sit staring as he apparently was taking in some point. At this
pace, it took about a month to get through a single book. But he never
forgot anything about that book.
“improve” my mind, and the book is boring, I just put it in the
get-rid-of pile. Life is too short, there are too many other books waiting to be
read.

Happy Reading!

Shannon

Life’s too short, (and I have too many books) to bother with a book that bores me. So I always leave it and start another.
But I ALWAYS try again with the book, sometimes it’s just that I’m not in the mood for a certain genre, or my brain is too full of other stuff to take on anything new.
I’ve come back to lots of books and found that giving it a second chance has worked out for me.

But lets face it, not everyone is going to like every book….so if it’s not for you, just move on to the next one.

See the books I’ve set free at:
http://bookcrossing.com/referral/safrolistics

Drop it! Millions await your company!

It depends. If I am doing genre reading for the sheer fun of it, and the book bores me at any point, I fling if far from me immediately, and return it to the library as soon as possible. If it is a book that I know is better than my reading capability (great literature, philosophy, poetry), I figure that the problem is with me, not the book, and read it slowly, in little chunks, sometimes over years, alongside other books. It usually repays the effort. Sometimes I am just not in the mood for a certain book, and then I will most of the time return it to the library but write it down on my “try again sometime” list. Some books I have swung by four or five times in as many years, and eventually quite enjoyed.

Having a wonderful, tiny branch library three minutes on foot from my front door makes my approach to reading much more plausible.

I finish it- although it sometimes takes a while, but if it’s that bad you just can’t continue! :)

I usually go and find something else to read. ^_ But I would definitely get back to the other book…I HAVE to finish whatever I started at one time or another ;)

I have two answers depending on the book:

1. If it’s a book that I think I’ll be interested in reading at some other time but I’m just not in the correct frame-of-mind to read it at the moment, I then set it aside. I read something that suits who I am/my current frame-of-mind. If I keep deciding not to read it as time goes on, I then rid myself of it.

2. If it’s a book that I immediately think is horribly boring and of no interest then I move on quickly to something else.

stop reading it. wait for when you feel like reading it aggain. there is no point in reading a book that you dob’t enjoy.

Start a new one and come back to it later (or not)...

Life is too short to read a book you don’t enjoy …