Love your whole 30 days of books thing. Sometimes I'm lured into a book by its premise, but if the writing and ideas aren't there, or the thesis/story isn't progressing at a tolerable pace (at the least), it goes unfinished. I've read beautifully written novels with anti-climactic endings, and foresaken potentially glorious conclusions because of stale style...but if I'm not in within the first third...I've probably moved on.
How can you say you're not well-read in the classics? Not you...
Thanks Amy! I'm sort of the same way -- I will draw an early impression and then the story/execution may bump it up or down a little. I haven't had many wholesale big swings. But I always wait until I'm finished and have digested it for a little while before I post anything.
I do usually finish books that I rate and sometimes it will change the rating by a star or two, but for the most part I find that if I don't like the author's voice at the beginning of the book no amount of plot line will make me like the ending.
Love your whole 30 days of books thing. Sometimes I'm lured into a book by its premise, but if the writing and ideas aren't there, or the thesis/story isn't progressing at a tolerable pace (at the least), it goes unfinished. I've read beautifully written novels with anti-climactic endings, and foresaken potentially glorious conclusions because of stale style...but if I'm not in within the first third...I've probably moved on.
How can you say you're not well-read in the classics? Not you...
Thanks Amy! I'm sort of the same way -- I will draw an early impression and then the story/execution may bump it up or down a little. I haven't had many wholesale big swings. But I always wait until I'm finished and have digested it for a little while before I post anything.
I do usually finish books that I rate and sometimes it will change the rating by a star or two, but for the most part I find that if I don't like the author's voice at the beginning of the book no amount of plot line will make me like the ending.