Would you re-read a book you hated?
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Would you re-read a book you hated?
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Reminds me of a joke ... The doctor tells his patient he has only two months to live. The patient says he is going to go right home and call his mother-in-law and ask her to come and live with him and his wife. "I see," said the doctor "you must really love your mother-in-law huh?" The patient replies, "Hell no, I hate her guts." To which the befuddled doctor asks, "Then why would you want to spend your remaining two months of life with her?" "Simple," replies the patient, "she will make two months seems like twenty years."
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I don't have many DNF's, and of those only a few I would say I hated. The others just didn't match my tastes at the time I first picked them up.
Those I often think of picking back up, but the ones I seriously don't like, there's a reason. I don't give up on a book easily.
What is grief, if not love persevering?
Grief is just love with no place to go.
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Ditto, I have to stand by not really. However, I'll attempt Gone Girl later in the summer.gali wrote:Not really, unless I was convinced to give it another chance. There are too many books I didn't read to waste my time on books I hated.
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I would agree totally ... not only is "youth wasted on the young" (George Bernard Shaw ) but many books are too. But then I guess if you weren't introduced to these books you wouldn't have them to return to!janae811 wrote:It depends on the reason I hated it. I read a couple of books in highschool and thought they were trash (probably because they were mandatory ) but read them a few years later and loved them. When you are younger you think differently. Then get older and look at it in a different light.
I hated Shakespeare in school but later got to love him - likewise with Beckett and many others.
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Since I remember those reasons so well, I feel like they're all I would be thinking of if I tried to start over fresh.
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