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What to do for the situation of actively liking a book, but getting bogged down because it's (for example) huge. With a series, you can take a break between in
by vollmond 17y ago
What to do for the situation of actively liking a book, but getting bogged down because it's (for example) huge.
With a series, you can take a break between installments. I read the first Otherland book several months ago, and I'm just now feeling ready to pick up book 2. What about this situation in the middle of a book? Put it back on the shelf to finish later, or cut your losses and move on?
- brg 17y agoThis has worked for me. Decide now on a chapter that you haven't reached yet as a goal. Force yourself to take a break when that milestone is reached and read something else in the intermission. If you still feel its worth the effort to finish the book, go back and pick up where you left off.
- yan 17y agoIf I'm reading something huge that is seeming to go on forever, I usually put it away for a few days to a week and read a smaller, lighter book in between.
- scott_s 17y agoI did something similar when I read "The Powerbroker," which is 1300 dense pages. I was fascinated by it, and I learned an enormous amount of information, but I knew from the beginning that it was at least a four month commitment. (Most of my reading gets done in short intervals at breakfast and lunch.) The last time I had read a book of similar size, density and importance, I had dropped it for six months - and that book ended up becoming one of my favorites. (For the record, it was "The Powers That Be.") I wanted to avoid doing that, so I just had a policy where I read a lighter book at home, and read the denser book when I was out. It worked great.
- yan 17y agoHa ha, that's the book I'm reading now, and exactly the book I had in mind when I made my original post.