/lit/ - Literature

>Getting bored of a book half way through.
Happens to me a lot. Is annoying because I still wanna know how it ends. I didn't finish On the Road and Lawrence's Women in Love
>Friends telling you how the story plays out.
My friends don't read much, and especially not the stuff that I read so it doesn't really matter. I wouldn't like it I suppose.
>How much you spend monthly on books.
That's not really an opinion, but I spend about €40-50 a month on books (mostly second-hand).

-Pussies. Go kill yourself.
-I don't care because people can spoil a plot but not spoil a style. I'm secretly a realist fan.
-Probably $100, mostly on used. I can spend $20 a week when bookshopping on weekends, although I have been to many new cities this month and that means visiting bookstores before I leave town for the next

-Only nonfiction. If it's fiction, I'll pretty much finish anything.
-That would require my friends reading more than maybe one book a year on average. Most have read as many books as I can count on my hands and toes.
-I have a kindle, so I don't spend money on books unless it is relatively rare. Maybe 5 dollars average a month over the last year.

-Happens a lot to me, then I pick up something I read and loved before, read a bit of it, and I feel optimistic again and I can finish whatever I got bored with.
-You really can't spoil a good story. If it's good, it won't matter that you know what happens, you'll connect.
-Between $10 and $100 a month, depending on how much money I make. This month's spending on books: $65

>>1078726
I just loose interest and end up stop reading books full stop for a while.

>>1078751
You're hardcore.

>>1078773
At British college system, 4 years ago, reading Of Mice and Men.. friend goes straight to the back page and shouts out what happens.
i fucking raged..

>>1078783
Does anyone have like a local library, i'm from the UK and just down the road the library just gives us a library card where we can rent out up to 3 books a month.. no costs.

>>1078814
>Loose interest

You should tighten that up, then.

>>1078824
No need to criticize my terrible spelling, i already know.

>>1078814
Wait, you have book quotas in UK libraries? LOL.

Yours,
A better country

>>1078814

Aren't they going to close a bunch of local libraries in the UK?

Also, here in Australia my library lets you take out 25 books.

>-Getting bored of a book half way through.
Hasn't stopped me from getting great marks in my courses, but I guess that's what happens when you can talk reliably about the theory behind any literature; you don't need to memorise every page from some delusional halfwit's book of scribblings.

>Friends telling you how the story plays out.
generally don't care

>-How much you spend monthly on books.
depends on how much money I have

>up to 3 books a month

What!? In my local library we can rent out 10 books for 3 weeks, you can even order books that they don't currently have in that particular library but do in others in the county. Also, I live in Britain.

>>1078814
IN BRISBANE AND THE GOLD COAST IN AUSTRALIA, YOU CAN BORROW UP TO 20 BOOKS AT A TIME AT NO COST

AND HOLD IT FOR A MONTH.

FUCK YEAH

>>1078838
40 here in Finland.

>>1078848
40 items. Of those 5 can be console games, 5 dvds and 5 blu rays.

>>1078841
I know 3 is not a big number, but i dont read that often anyway so it's all good for me.

>-Getting bored of a book half way through.
then it's a shit book. sorry, not my fault you have nothing interesting to say anymore

>-Friends telling you how the story plays out.
thanks!

>-Getting bored of a book half way through.

I read Rendezvous with Rama the other day.
Got really bored halfway through. I still finished it though, just because I had already started it.

>-Getting bored of a book half way through.
It happens. Ya move on.

>-Friends telling you how the story plays out.
>implying I have friends

>-How much you spend monthly on books.
Nothing.

- Nothing wrong with that. I generally persist with it till the end just in case in manages to "click" later.
- They don't read books, let alone the books I read
- Library. I don't even know why they put a limit on books when most kiddies are only there to borrow DVD's

I have an 80 page rule. If the book hasn't captured my attention by page 80 I put it down. I'll usually try again at a later date if the plot was intriguing, but if the same thing happens again I'm done with that book.

Life is too short and there are too many books to go and read one that I don't like.