Comments on: I’m DNFing and You Can Too! http://wendysparrow.com/2014/05/im-dnfing-and-you-can-too/ Where all books have a happily ever after... Tue, 13 Jun 2017 18:38:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.3 By: Wendy Sparrow http://wendysparrow.com/2014/05/im-dnfing-and-you-can-too/#comment-5928 Tue, 13 Jun 2017 18:38:29 +0000 http://wendysparrow.com/?p=1196#comment-5928 In reply to Gemma Harding.

That’s a good rule of thumb… you’ve invested enough time without getting to where you feel betrayed by it not meeting expectations. I think that’s key to being able to not leave scathing, angry reviews for a book you didn’t finish.

]]> By: Gemma Harding http://wendysparrow.com/2014/05/im-dnfing-and-you-can-too/#comment-5927 Tue, 13 Jun 2017 08:18:35 +0000 http://wendysparrow.com/?p=1196#comment-5927 I have a rule of thumb… 100 pages or 1/3 of the book, which ever is greater. If it hasn’t grabbed me by then… Bye bye book. Its difficult, but i have had to be ruthless. Not only do you struggle, it can really dent your. Reading mojo. I’m happy to do this. I won’t write a full review, only a few words on why i DNF’ed and then move on. I won’t make it personal foe i know that everyone likes different things. This is only my opinion.

Great post

]]> By: Wendy Sparrow http://wendysparrow.com/2014/05/im-dnfing-and-you-can-too/#comment-1129 Wed, 21 May 2014 05:48:03 +0000 http://wendysparrow.com/?p=1196#comment-1129 In reply to Eve I ate your damn Apple.

Wow, I can’t even imagine that. I have as many as three going at once, but always in completely different genres…and I finish about 95% of the books I start–I’d guess. Maybe more than that because I do read a ton, and I knock out most purchases by reading tons of reviews in advance. That’s just…so far from my reading habits…wow.

]]> By: Eve I ate your damn Apple http://wendysparrow.com/2014/05/im-dnfing-and-you-can-too/#comment-1114 Sat, 17 May 2014 14:43:41 +0000 http://wendysparrow.com/?p=1196#comment-1114 I have so many books that I’ve never finished. I guess it’s my complete lack of OCD…I usually have 5 or 6 going at a time and I rarely finish any of them lol. Ah well, you win some, you lose some.

]]> By: Wendy Sparrow http://wendysparrow.com/2014/05/im-dnfing-and-you-can-too/#comment-1025 Thu, 08 May 2014 22:32:28 +0000 http://wendysparrow.com/?p=1196#comment-1025 In reply to Suzanne Lucero.

It’s crazy how many books I’ve thought were just plain bad that have made it past gatekeepers. Not just subjectively bad, but the writing itself was appalling and not in a stylized way.

Then again, I DNFed a major bestseller a few years ago. Sometimes the final gatekeeper is the reader, and that was before I read reviews as much as I do now. Now, I read a lot fewer bad books due to reading reviews so thoroughly. I still do…just due to the quantity of reading I do, but not nearly as many as I once did. And I love the one star reviews that go into specifics because they generally list things that would make me DNF.

And you’re right about so many books…. My ebook library and thus my TBR list is enormous, and it doesn’t help that I’m still binge-reading and I can’t seem to break out of it. I have a bunch of books lined up for when I break out of this binge, but, in the meantime, books are jumping the line. GAH! I’m so pathetic.

]]> By: Wendy Sparrow http://wendysparrow.com/2014/05/im-dnfing-and-you-can-too/#comment-1022 Thu, 08 May 2014 22:24:36 +0000 http://wendysparrow.com/?p=1196#comment-1022 In reply to Talia.

I think I remember the books I’ve DNFed or should have thrown a bit more than the bulk of the good ones. I’ve had three books this year that I should have DNFed but didn’t. So, I still need to do this more often. Since I don’t review anything less than four stars, finishing a one or two star book is a waste of time…and headspace.

]]> By: Suzanne Lucero http://wendysparrow.com/2014/05/im-dnfing-and-you-can-too/#comment-1016 Thu, 08 May 2014 14:38:37 +0000 http://wendysparrow.com/?p=1196#comment-1016 I know how you feel, Wendy. Well, maybe not exactly, but pretty close. I, too used to struggle through badly written books, and this was back in the day when the books had to go through an agent and an editor and a publisher before being printed. I mean, there were GATEKEEPERS. They were supposed to STOP the badly-written books from even being typeset.

The first time I DNF’d a book, I felt so guilty. I kept thinking, what if it gets better in another page or two? There must have been a reason this book was published. Maybe I’m giving up too soon.

Now, especially with ebooks, the bar is so much lower. These days, if the writing is sophomoric, or the story doesn’t grab me by the throat within the first chapter or two, or there are logical inconsistencies or plot holes you can drive a truck through, I have no problem dumping it and going on to another.

SO MANY BOOKS TO READ, SO LITTLE TIME.

]]> By: Talia http://wendysparrow.com/2014/05/im-dnfing-and-you-can-too/#comment-1013 Thu, 08 May 2014 13:02:56 +0000 http://wendysparrow.com/?p=1196#comment-1013 I actually have a whole Goodreads bookshelf dedicated to books I never finished… And several books I wish I had added to that shelf rather than finishing. A bad book lingers, poisoning your next read unless you’re careful.

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