Comments on: I did a bad, bad thing … https://www.jenniferestep.com/i-did-a-bad-bad-thing/ New York Times & USA Today Bestselling Author Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:41:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Jennifer Estep https://www.jenniferestep.com/i-did-a-bad-bad-thing/#comment-9856 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:41:37 +0000 https://www.jenniferestep.com/blog/?p=616#comment-9856 Amy and Jody — It depends. If it’s something that everyone is buzzing about or an area I want to read more in for research, then yeah, I’ll slog through it until the bitter end. And then wonder why folks are buzzing about a certain book.

]]> By: Jody W. https://www.jenniferestep.com/i-did-a-bad-bad-thing/#comment-9854 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:50:05 +0000 https://www.jenniferestep.com/blog/?p=616#comment-9854 What Amy said. I hardly have time to read good books, much less bad ones. I can see slogging through something you didn’t enjoy if it was pure market research, though.

]]> By: Amy https://www.jenniferestep.com/i-did-a-bad-bad-thing/#comment-9845 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:38:44 +0000 https://www.jenniferestep.com/blog/?p=616#comment-9845 Life is too short for bad books. I try my hardest, but if it isn’t a good book I don’t waste any more of my time than I have to. I’ve had more than a few make their way to the library donation pile.

(And libraries LOVE donations…at least mine does, anyway! :scooby: )

]]> By: Jennifer Estep https://www.jenniferestep.com/i-did-a-bad-bad-thing/#comment-9842 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:29:36 +0000 https://www.jenniferestep.com/blog/?p=616#comment-9842 PurpleRanger — I used to do that too. But now, I’ve got so little free time that I’m a lot pickier about what I read.

Tia — Classics, huh? I got enough of those in college. I think the only classic I have left from all the ones I had to read is Huck Finn. And Watership Down, if you consider that one a classic. I do. :blossom:

]]> By: Tia https://www.jenniferestep.com/i-did-a-bad-bad-thing/#comment-9812 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 01:22:31 +0000 https://www.jenniferestep.com/blog/?p=616#comment-9812 If I buy it, I’m more likely to try to finish reading it. If I don’t finish it, it will go on my bookshelf indefinitely. At some point, if I know I’ll never read it, I’ll put it in the pile for the used book store or the library.

Classics I’ll keep around forever. I have a fifteen year old copy of War and Peace that I’ll finish one day. Same goes for Moby Dick, The Red Badge of Courage, and about a dozen others. I still have a copy of Wuthering Heights that I purchased when I was sixteen, and have never been able to get through.

]]> By: PurpleRanger https://www.jenniferestep.com/i-did-a-bad-bad-thing/#comment-9796 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:45:29 +0000 https://www.jenniferestep.com/blog/?p=616#comment-9796 Once I start reading a book, I finish it. Of course, I don’t start reading a book unless I’m absolutely certain that I will want to read all of it.

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