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Fiction

bif

(25,706 posts) Thu Jul 18, 2019, 08:09 AM Jul 2019

Life is too short to read something mediocre. If a book doesn't grab me in the first 50 pages, I put it down and move on.

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I usually give a book 50 pages before I give up. How about you? [View all] bif Jul 2019 OP

I usually give a book 75 pages. madaboutharry Jul 2019 #1

Same for me.... Zoonart Jul 2019 #4

51 pages True Dough Jul 2019 #3

Funny! bif Jul 2019 #6

Forty for me. Polly Hennessey Jul 2019 #5

No set number of pages. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2019 #7

I've given up on page 5. Tracer Jul 2019 #8

I give it to the end of the Amazon sample yellowdogintexas Aug 2019 #9