When to quit reading a book

A friend gave me this useful formula : Subtract your age from the number 100, and the answer is the number of pages you have to read before giving up on a book you’re not enjoying.* Her advice came to mind the other day as I was preparing to return yet another partially read book to the library. Oops, I thought : am I dangerously deficient in perseverance?

No, I said to myself. Life is short - why spend it with books I don’t really want to read?

I’ve had this conversation several times. It usually comes up when somebody tells me they just finished a book, I ask how it was, and they say it sucked. “Why did you read it?” is my usual response. Try it, it usually leads to good conversation with a few interesting theories.

(Source: azspot)