[stylist] Viewpoint on what we are reading

[slery]

I agree with Jackie. When I was younger, I finished every book I started
weather it was good or not. Probably, in my mid 30s I finally stopped this
habit. Why waste time on something I am not enjoying when it is supposed to
be pleasure reading.

And sometimes, if you need to listen to things and the narrator is so
horrible, you just have to give up. I needed Shakespeare's sonnets for a
college class and my braille skills were not good enough at the time so I
had to get it from RFB&D. Apparently, there was no such thing as quality
control. The narrator stumbled over the words so bad a fourth grader could
have read these and made more sense out of them.

I have also had books that I read and loved in my print days that when
trying to listen to it the narrator was not the right person for that book.

Cindy

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Subject: [stylist] Viewpoint on what we are reading

To all,
I have followed this stream and truly appreciate all of the books listed
with the excellent re-caps of them I have forwarded several of them to
writer friends..
Two viewpoints were expressed about reading a book to the end, even if you
lost interest, or disliked it.
While sides of finishing it or tossing it were informed, something was
overlooked.
As time goes by, priorities change on your purpose in both reading and
writing. Lynda suggested that it promotes sticking to other projects and may
lead to important changes in your ability to finish things.
 
At a certain point you have already formed your habits of whether you finish
distasteful projects, and you have made a judgement as to whether your stick
to it  spirit  is worth the time and effort. 
if you know your time is short, how ill-advised it might be to sweat over
something that may or may not change your character, or your viewpoint.
If you are young and a life of change awaits, by all means finish those
things that you know have value even if you don't appreciate them now. 
But if you know that you must be very selective in what projects will define
your life, and your abilities must be stretched to meet those objectives, do
not ever spend valuable time in going back unless it is pertinent to your
project.
I have not used the quote beneath my name lightly. 
Jackie Lee
 
Time is the school in which we learn.
Time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz       
 
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