I love the cocktail party metaphor. Very similar, that feeling of trying to figure out how to escape a boring conversation and the experience of trying to free oneself from a very tedious book.
I used to be a stalwart FINISHER OF BOOKS. Every single one. I've never heard of the age formula, but I certainly know that the older I get, the less patience I have for books I don't like. I stop after ten pages. After eighty pages. After two hundred pages, sometimes. I don't even care. And if after two hundred pages, I still can't bare to finish a book, that's a bad sign, isn't it? But I don't buy that whole sunken costs crap. Life is too short to finish a bad book, no matter how close I am to the ending.
I love the cocktail party metaphor. Very similar, that feeling of trying to figure out how to escape a boring conversation and the experience of trying to free oneself from a very tedious book.
I used to be a stalwart FINISHER OF BOOKS. Every single one. I've never heard of the age formula, but I certainly know that the older I get, the less patience I have for books I don't like. I stop after ten pages. After eighty pages. After two hundred pages, sometimes. I don't even care. And if after two hundred pages, I still can't bare to finish a book, that's a bad sign, isn't it? But I don't buy that whole sunken costs crap. Life is too short to finish a bad book, no matter how close I am to the ending.