How long do you wait?

[Meminger]

To be hooked by a book or to decide you must give up on it? I seriously am wondering. Say you use your monthly credit on a book you have high hopes for and then just don't like it, or you can't figure out where it's going, or you really dislike the narrator. I feel terribly guilty giving up on a book I have paid full price for, audio or paper.
I gave up on Ghosts of Belfast, promising myself I'd go back to it, but I really didn't like it and who knows if I will try again. Only if you tell me too!
I am starting to wonder about The Passage. I really don't like the writing style, the story, or Scott Brick's narration. I am not ready to give up but am wondering if it gets better and I will start caring. A real dilema for me.

[mickyplum]

i try my best to stick with books but there are some exceptions.i gave up on 'blood meridian' by cormac mccarthy - twice.first time i got about halfway and i hated it,the second time,probably 12 months later,i made it a bit further but i hated it even more.why i went back for a second go is beyond me,i just thought i wasn't in the right mood for it first time - wrong.another book i gave up on was 'inkspell' by cornelia funke,this lasted 10 minutes because the narrator was so bad (brendan fraser) .i know i've mentioned fraser before but it's very frustrating when you enjoy the first book so much only to have the second book spoilt by such a terrible narrator,i want my money back.i keep thinking that i'll give it another go as he doesn't read the third book but i'm not sure i can listen to his annoying voice.i won't spoil 'the passage' for you mem but i make my thoughts clear in the thread i started for the book,have a look it may save you some time - i haven't put any spoilers in there,just how i felt about it

mick

[McCuisine]

It happens, I've had couple of books I didn't like, one I deleted completely off my drive, but the same thing with DVDs too over the years, just have to grin and bare it I guess?

[Meminger]

Mick, I just did read you review on the other thread and now I have to weigh which disturbs me more--giving up feeling I wasted a credit or wasting so many hours and feeling like I have been jerked around by an author.
Yes, McCuisine, I know how it feels to want to delete it off your computer entirely.
I bought Dean Koontz' Darkest Evening of the Year in hardcover, thinking it would be like the Watchers, which I loved so much. It was awful--he had an agenda and didn't care about the story at all (IMHO), and that is the last Koontz book I will ever pay for.

[aprilla]

Meminger ... is this a fantasy, are you me?

I' 'in' The Passage, almost 1/2way through and because of the comments on this site am quite determined to finish it. I'll admit to being interested in some parts but other parts ...... hmmmm I'll say no more.

Three books ago I finished Dean Koontz Darkest Evening of the Year, I will admit that the reviews I read didn't say much good about it but I was caught up in the 'dog' thing (I like dogs in books) and had read Watchers (which was good tho not fantastic I thought) so I blame myself for that choice .... suffice to say I won't be reading him anymore. Well, maybe, if I hear it's a dog theme LOL

Never say never!

So far the only book I've given up on that was not a narrator turn-off was Iris Johansen, Deadlock. I like her Eve Duncan series (have read books one & two) and mistakenly got Deadlock which isn't part of the series. I listened to 3/4 through approx then gave it up - I have no idea what it's about

[LillyWhite]

I am more likely to give up on a book from the library or that was borrowed - in other words, one I didn't pay for! If I've shelled out $, I try to stick with it.