The rights of a Reader http://www2.curriculum.edu.au/verve/_resources/Connections_72_poster.pdf

#3 = the right not to finish
I have too many things waiting to read to spend time with something that doesn't grab me. Sometime I throw them back to try again later, and sometimes I just DNF

Yesterday I gave up on The Fault in our Stars. Didn't like the characters at all. What's with the pretentious talking and the long words? All I could think was that teenagers don't talk like that in a million years. Having cancer seemed to have turned them into obnoxious smart-*kitten*. (At least that's what my best friend - who loves the book - said, in nicer words)

I end up doing a lot of angry reading. One of my best friends has a horrible taste for books and she keeps recommending super corny YA.

it pretty much goes like: Oh like X is ever going to talk to Y (he does), I bet that he'll fall in love with her and she'll be all awkward (it happens), THAT NEVER HAPPENS IN REAL LIFE (it happens) oh for f*cks sake, don't tell me she'll get away with it (she does) UGHHH... whyyyy

I have to finish any book I start it drives me nuts if i don't

I give a book 75 pages. If it hasn't grabbed me by then, goodbye! Life is too short to waste on bad books!

That series didn't hook me even though I normally love books like that, I read the first one and enjoyed it but just not enough to continue it for endless amounts of books there after... if it was a trilogy I would have read all of them but since it was a bigger commitment I cut my losses.

I try my very hardest to finish a book even if I don't love it, and I've only given up a few times in my whole life.

I do agree with what another person said, audiobooks are great for this type of book, since your usually doing other things while listening, and it's not a complete waste of time. If it's a boring book I actually purposely listen to it before bed so that I fall asleep quickly haha!

On Goodreads, I'm trying to finish a challenge of "books read on the Gilmore Girls" and I have tried to read some of them and for me they suck. Like Charles Dickens book, I'd rather have a root canal. I didn't finish it. I call some out of my comfort zone. But I have like theowlbox said life is to short.

Sorry to necro an old post, I do that from time to time...

Generally, this is why I don't join Book Clubs where there are assigned books. I did that in college classes enough to get a bad taste in my mouth (being assigned to read Wuthering Heights in less than a week for a literature class burned me out). I don't want to be forced to read something that I am not enjoying just because. I get a lot of recommendations from Book Clubs and sometimes read the books, and I know I miss discussions of them, which I might really enjoy, but I'd rather pick (or quit) the books I choose, even in my favorite genres.

I do DNF books I hate. There just aren't that many that I start in the first place that I end up hating, I know my tastes and seem to choose pretty well for myself.