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If 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.
by yan 17y ago
If 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.