November Group Read: First Check-In

[kalloway]

We're now nearly a week in! Have you finished or started anything? How are you feeling? (It is perfectly fine if the answers are "no", "nope", and "augh", of course.)


For added optional discussion, if you'd like- Do you ever DNF (Did Not Finish) books? If so, what makes you DNF something and when? Style? Content? Not grabbing you after x% of pages? Something else? Or are you the type of reader who finishes everything you start, no matter what? Have you changed your stance on this over time?

Comments

[vriddy]

20% sounds like giving a book a fair shot before giving up!! I think I'd still have found that too hard for some of the densest books I had to admit would be DNF for me 😂 Your "though I probably finish more books than I should anyway" made me chuckle, though.

[kalloway]

I absolutely do. Sometimes I have to be absolutely sure I can talk about how much I dislike a thing... Sometimes it's a "well surely this thing I hate will get subverted" and then I'm staring at The End going "well that sure didn't get subverted, what a fucking mess." because that's just how I do. ^^;;

(I also have a not-ironclad "no doorstoppers" rule. If it's over 400 pages, it had better be coming off a recommendation I trust. Most 400+ page books don't need to be 400+ page books.)

[vriddy]

"well that sure didn't get subverted" XD XD XD Terrible feeling when that happens 😂

[rmc28]

Oh man it is! Different medium, but I remember being utterly disappointed in Aquaman because I convinced myself while watching there was going to be a clever plot twist that ... didn't happen. No, we are just doing the obvious plot here.