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Re:Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket by Baeocystin on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @10:25PM (#35367057)
Don't you think you're being a little uncharitable to the advice?

The experience between struggling with a complex work that you feel has something to tell you vs. being disappointed by low-quality schlock isn't hard to differentiate. Telling people to 'just power through it no matter what' results in a lot of wasted time, and potentially worse, a diminished joy in reading itself.

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Re:Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket by prepend on Thursday March 30, 2023 @05:07AM (#35369953)
I certainly don’t think people should continue on with terrible books or power through everything. If I have schlock I don’t want to give it 50 pages and it may be worth quitting at 5 pages, or 15, or even on the cover.

I’m not sure I’d have very useful advice other than to think about what they read and why and to constantly adjust their to read and am reading list of books.

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