Do you read books that you know you're going to hate, or think you're going to hate? Feel free to add comments below on why - will add a few of these to an article. Also, if you could please share, that would be most helpful.
@suswatibasu I think there’s a meaningful difference between being bored out of your mind by something and being morally repulsed by it.
I’ll slog through the boring and not-my-thing books if I want to see what others get from them, and see whether my interests expand with the activity; after all, sometimes I just need to get into something before I want to keep going.
I just don’t have the stomach for anything longer than articles of something I deem morally heinous, though.
@suswatibasu Occasionally. I read thing recently - what basically turned out to be a romantic drama - but the author (or the editor, because it seemed to be glued on later on) has a weakness for talking about the muscled arms and fitness activity of the male hero. This annoyed me and kept annoying me. But the rest of the story was fine, so I pressed on.
I belong to a book club whose members are mostly coworkers. We meet outside work, and while there is a lot of overlap in the Venn diagram of our tastes, there are a couple of people who like books that are so not my type. I still read them because that is how the group works. If we don’t all read the text, the discussion would be kinda flat, and I love the discussions.
Not regularly, but it has happened and will again. And when it does, I usually approach like an academic; trying to understand why and how it sucks, which makes the process enjoyable for me still
@suswatibasu I just voted no…and then I realised I have done so — I despised the main character but loved a side character so much that I continued with the second book (thank god it was only a duology).
But I wouldn’t set out to do so, I have too many books I think I’m going to love to bother with books I think I’ll hate.
@suswatibasu life's too short and there are more books I want to read than I'll be able to get through in my lifetime. If there's something I feel I need to know about to, say, know what the opposition is thinking on a subject that's important to me I can find a summary - as an example I feel as a feminist I should probably be aware of what dangerous stuff Jordan Peterson is coming out with next, but I'll find a summary rather than reading the book
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