Have You Ever Finished A Book You Didn

Have you ever started reading a 1500 pages book and finished it?

Read this till the end!I am a Huge Stephen King fan! Now anyone familiar with Stephen King would know that a lot of his books are huge! Long like really really Long!Now answering your question:1. I read Stephen King’s “IT” last year and it was nearly 1400 pages long.And I use Goodreads to track my reading progress, so here is my reading progress for Stephen King’s “IT”:As you can see it took me about 2 and a half months to complete this big boy, but keep in mind that I have a full time job as well!2. Last year I also read “The Stand” Complete and Uncut Edition by Stephen King which also clocks in at about 1400 pages.Here is my reading progress for “The Stand” : (It’s upside down for some reason :/ )So as you can see this one took me just about 5 weeks!3. I also read “The Dark Tower” by Stephen King:Sadly I did not track my progress for this one but still it was over a 1000 pages!Now as you asked for some tricks, these are things that I do to make sure I am able to read big books fairly quickly and also make sure it does not seem like a daunting task:Maintain a Goodreads account. Update there regularly as to what you are reading and what is your progress (How many pages). Make sure you select the right edition for the book you are reading. Goodreads also helps you maintain shelfs of “read” and “to read” which is an awesome way to organize your reading.Download the eBook of whichever book you are currently reading and upload it to your cloud platform (Drive, etc). Also keep a copy in your phone so that it is always with you and when you don’t have the physical book, you can still read the eBook and mark your progress. Read during lunch, during breaks at work, etc.And finally also get the audiobook of the book you are currently reading so that you can listen to it when you’re too tired to physically read words like after a long day at work or even when you are driving or using public transport.Make sure you are interested, serious about it and nothing can stop you from finishing the book.Next I am planning to read “Under the Dome”, “Insomnia”, “DreamCatcher” and “Desperation” by Stephen King which are long as hell too!Happy Reading :)Ironically this answer is long as hell! Sorry! Hope it helped!

What book was so bad that you didn’t even finish it?

I read 2-3 books a day, when I'm not on Quora, so there are a lot of books that were too bad to finish. Anything by Danielle Steele, for starters. The Twilight series. A few ‘classics’ that I couldn't stand, I don't care how classic they are. Steven Comey's book - it wasn't that the book was awful, but I was listening to it and his narrative skills are nonexistent.

Do I have to finish every book I start to read?

The most powerful and successful people always have shared their strongest skill is to read the most. They have grown a discipline to sit for hours and read through many books. They device a vision on the purpose to reading any book they pick. They have developed over time such skill that they can find the thing they are looking for quite fast and then then are done with it.Learn more about Books from Bill gates himself.Bill Gates, even richer than Buffett, is also a voracious reader. He said, "I read while traveling, waiting for meetings, in the evening, and especially on vacation." Now that he's a major philanthropist, he doesn't just read briefs and write checks, but he reads deeply on the issues he cares about: "I might read more about diseases than about any other subject."18 Book Recommendations From Billionaire Warren Buffett Mark Cuban: 6 great books for entrepreneurs - Founder oMark Zuckerberg - My challenge for 2015 is to read a new... “In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time -- none, zero. You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads--and at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out.” - Charles T. Munger12 Books That Jeff Bezos Thinks Everyone Should Read - Founder of Amazon.com9 Books Steve Jobs Thought Everybody Should Read - Founder of Apple14 books that inspired Elon Musk - Founder of Tesla, Space X, Pay Pal, Solar CityThe Books That Inspired Tech's Most Influential People The Unusual Books That Shaped Billionaires, Mega-Bestselling Authors, and Other Prodigies - by Tim FerrissThe questions you must ask yourself about not reading a book any more areWhy did you pick up the book? Did you get what you were looking from it? Do you need to dig deeper to find it? Or is the book not delivering to the promise? If any of the question above turn out to be resolved, you can put the book back into the shelf and be content of having read it. Google declares that there are roughly around 130 million books available in the world to be read. So it would be inhumanly to read them all. Hence, get the best from each book and read ahead. Keep reading until your engagement for the quest you picked up the book, is fulfilled.Have fun reading.Cheers!

Do you ever re-read a book immediately after you finish it?

Yes I have.I got hit by a car one Friday evening and I had with me a copy of “The Detonators: The Secret Plot to Destroy America and the Hunt for Justice.” by Chad Milman about the explosion in July 1916 in New York Harbor. I had started reading it during dinner at a local Restaurant.I was taken to the Emergency Room and after they stabilized me, I had to wait for over 6 hours before they found a Hospital Room to put me. During that Six hour Wait, I read the Book for the first time.I finally got put in a Room and the next morning, when I woke up, discover the room I was in had no TV or Radio. My Family was out of town that weekend and was not due back to Monday. So I read my Book a second Time.Sunday, Having still nothing else to read, Not even a Newspaper, I read the book a third time.By Monday a Nurse brought me the morning Newspaper and latter on brought me a Stephen King Novel to tie me over. Than My Mother brought me a Portable Radio so I could listen to some music and talk radio as well some other books from my House.The Book “The Detonators” is a interesting books and cover a event in American History that is today Forgotten. It is Well written. But even the best book in the world can not stand up to three readings in a row.

Do you finish a book you don't like?

Once, on the recommendation of my best friend, whose tastes tend to match mine when it comes to books, music, TV and film, I read The Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs. I was quickly bewildered by the stream-of-consciousness prose that didn’t really seem to tell any kind of coherent story. But, on my friend’s recommendation, I soldiered through, expecting there to be a point of some kind… some payoff that would make it all worthwhile.The book ended, and I was just as confused as when I started. The only thing about the book I found remotely interesting were the postscripts written by the author, discussing his various experiences with different types of illicit drugs, and how he had consulted with various authorities on methods of treatment for drug dependency and withdrawal (not written as stream-of-consciousness, but more like an essay, or an article in a medical journal).When I asked my friend why he thought the book was so great, his reply was, “Oh, I never actually read the book, but the movie by David Cronenberg was pretty cool.”On the other hand, I started reading the first volume of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time saga, hated it, and realizing that there were only 236 more 1400-page volumes to go after this one, decided to chalk it up as a loss and stopped reading. One of the few instances where I started reading something and never finished it.

What’s a book you couldn’t finish at all?

I do wonder if anyone has, since oh 1950, actually read, and read completely, and finished Finnegan’s Wake. I have tried to read it several times, and have gotten to about page 25 or 30. I have read Ulysses, and liked that quite a bit.But Finnegan’s Wake ? Why would any author who actually wanted people to read his work - and buy his books - write such a book ?The while super- elaborate language in Finnegan’s Wake reads, to me in my several attempts, very like schizophrenic art looks. Have you ever seen those types of drawings ? Take a look at some - look at the unreal detailing, with patterns everywhere. The same sort of thing familiar from drug and acid drawings from the 60s and 70s.I have read that Joyce had untreated syphilis, and had neurological diseases and mental impairments from this disease. Reading - attempting - Finnegan’s Wake makes this diagnosis not unreasonable to me.

Have you ever stopped reading a book that you didn't like?

Oh yes. It doesn’t happen often that I start a book I don’t like, but if I do there are one of two outcomes:Either it is the nth book in a series, in which case I usually finish it because I plan to read the next book — if I have this experience multiple times in a row I will eventually give up on the seriesorIt is not related to another book that I have previously read, in which case I will stop reading it.I quit reading a book that won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction once because I didn’t like it, couldn’t get into it. The problem is that for me, if I have to force myself to finish a book, I just find other things to do than reading (I’m a one-book-at-a-time girl). So the next thing you know, I’m not reading anything at all.When reading for pleasure, there are too many good books to waste time on the ones that aren’t a pleasure to read.