Thursday, March 7, 2013

The Book Chat {Abandoning Books}

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I have to admit this post if perfect for me. Right now I'm in the middle of Redemption by Karen Kingsbury and I have just not enjoying this book. Why haven't I put it down? Why am I still reading the book if I'm not enjoying it? 

I just read sweet green tangerine's post and she talked about how she puts down books that she doesn't enjoy a lot. I'm different. I have a really hard time abandoning a book. I always tell myself maybe it will get better, but usually if I don't like it halfway through I will end the book not liking. Books that I do not enjoy end up taking me much longer than books I enjoy. That is the hard part in this conversation. Why would I want to continue to read a book I don't enjoy if it takes so much time? 

I believe the book deserves to be read once I have started reading it. The only time I don't mind quitting a book is if I am in the library and read the first few pages and just don't think I will like a book. I do that almost daily, but if I love the summary and check out the book I will usually force myself to finish it. 

I'm going to ask you to please not bash me for the books I list below that I finished, but didn't like. We are all entitled to our opinion and we aren't all going to like certain books.

Books I have not like, but forced myself to finish
New Moon by Stephanie Meyer is my least favorite book and movie of the Twilight Saga. Anybody who knows me know that I love Twilight, but this book was quite a challenge to read. It just felt that there was nothing going on. I finished it so I could move on to Eclipse and Breaking Dawn which I loved.







The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold was again a tough book to read and I don't remember much about the book. I saw that the movie was coming out and although it was different from what I usually read I decided to give it a try. It took me the entire summer to read and I just did not enjoy it. Again I felt like there wasn't much action and I couldn't get into the story line  I have never seen the movie because I didn't like the book and didn't see the point. 





Fine freak out on me that The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is going on this list. I read The Hunger Games February of 2012 in preparation for the March 2012 movie. Everybody loved this book and this was a book I deeply wanted to love also, but the fact of the matter is I didn't. I kept hoping and hoping for this book to get better and it never did. I had a really hard time getting past the morbid part of this book that their corrupt government was killing innocent children. I think if I could have got past how morbid this book is I probably would have liked it. I ended up really liking the movie and because I liked the movie because I like Jennifer Lawerence because I want to see the 2nd movie I'm going to give Catching Fire a try. I will probably read it in October 2013 to be prepared for the November 2013 movie. 
I read this book Here Comes Trouble by Debbie Macomber this past December 2012. I just felt so blah about the characters in this book. I found myself not caring what happened to these characters. They were either together or they weren't. I didn't care which way it went. Luckily this book was short and only took me a few days.






Redemption by Karen Kingsbury is being added to the list. I had to force myself to finish this book and I ended up just scanning the last 100 pages. I didn't even care when some bad stuff happened to the characters. You can check out my rather negative review for this book. I would like to save other people the agony of reading this book. 







The One Book that I have truly Abandoned
I started reading this book during my sophomore year in high school back when I was a two book reader. This book always took a back seat to all the other books I was reading and since I own the book I ended up putting it down and saying I would come back to it when I have time. It took me an entire semester to read 82 pages. Now I will have to reread those 82 pages. I haven't had time yet, but I do plan to come back to Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert since it is my nonfiction book for this quarter. 





Thanks for Reading


Rachael 

16 comments:

  1. Hi :) Your chat topics are always very interesting but I rarely have the time to jump in ^^ Anyway, for your question today, I'm the same, I rarely abandon books, even if I don't like them. If I started something, I want to finish it - or else I just don't feel it would be fair to state I disliked them.
    I drop books very very rarely. Sometimes it's because I just don't feel ready for them and I fear I won't to the justice - like The Name of the Rose. I tried reading it 5 years ago but gave up back then with the intention to restart it later :)

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    1. I totally agree. I usually big books that I believe I will enjoy and most of the time I really enjoy them other times I don't. I don't hit bad books all that often.

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  2. I'm the same way, I keep reading even though I'm wasting my time. Ugh, I need to stop! I can't believe you didn't like The Hunger Games, but I don't judge because everyone is different. I'm sure there are books I hate that others love. No biggie. =]

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    1. This is the comment I was waiting for. I really wanted to like The Hunger Games I just didn't. I avoid talking about The Hunger Games often because I know a lot of people love the book and I didn't enjoy it. I haven't met a person in real life that disliked the book.

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  3. Trust me, I know what it's like to dislike a book that everyone else likes and it drives me nuts. (Ender's Game and Perks of Being a Wallflower, for example)
    I liked the first half of Eat, Pray, Love, but I felt like it dragged in the middle for me. I wouldn't blame you for abandoning that one.
    Thanks for linking up!

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    1. I love The Book Chat. I'm going to give Eat Pray Love one more chance. My sister didn't think I would like Perks of Being a Wallflower so I haven't read it.

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  4. haha we are SUCH opposites! Eat Pray Love was one of my favorite reads last year. But to be fair, I love to travel and I loved her witty writing and her travel memoir. It's definitely gotten mixed reviews so that's totally understandable.

    Looking back, New Moon & Lovely Bones are two books I could have probably done without in my life, too!

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    1. New Moon was just the most dragging book of the twilight saga and one I don't sing my praises to at all. I am going to give Eat, Pray, Love one more try. Then after I finish I'm going to see about selling the book.

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  5. I watched about 10 minutes of Eat. Pray. Love. on a plane once and HATED it, so I never even tried the book. Glad to see I'm not missing anything! I did love The Lovely Bones, though, but I'm pretty morbid with my book choices.

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    1. I liked the movie of Eat, Pray, Love although it isn't my favorite movie by any means. I just had a hard time getting in and staying with the book since I had an unlimited time frame.

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  6. I'm with you on The Lovely Bones. I forced myself to finished(partially because my sister was reading it as well, and we hardly ever do the same thing/like the same thing, so I wanted to give it a try), and really wish I wouldn't have spent that time of my life reading it. It just. .. . didn't have much of a point for me? I felt it could have been a poignant and moving story but it always just kinda stayed on the surface.

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    1. I defiantly agree with you on that point. There could have been so much more to that book, but there was just nothing. My sister and I read a lot of the same books and it is fun to discuss them with her. While I have a reading list a mile high my sister always waits until she is finished with a book to pick out her next while I always know about the next five books I'm reading next.

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  7. There were a few Lovely Bones responses today and I LOVED that book! It's funny how different things attract different readers :)
    I think I want to give Eat. Pray. Love. a try because I did like the movie but I won't be too surprised if I can't get through it.
    Anywho, always nice to see a new blog linking up for the book chat!! Hope to see you linking up next wekk :)

    --Erinn

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    1. I have been linking up to it for a few weeks, but I think it is a fun chat. I will see about Eat Pray Love when I pick it up again probably in April.

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  8. I loved Hunger Games but didn't like the movie. I almost never see a movie if I've read the book but I heard such great things about the movie that I caved. Should have stuck with my SOP.

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    1. Interesting that you don't see the movies. I always love to see how the book looks on the big screen. I have discovered many of my favorite authors because they had one book made into a movie. The authors I love tab up top has the links to how I got started reading my favorite authors.

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