Do you feel guilty about putting down a book, halfway through? [View all]
I like adventure/thriller books, and about five or six years ago, I purchased a Clive Cussler book (Lost City) from a Going Out Of Business sale. The cover is fun, lol, and it seemed like a fun story. So I put it on my bookshelf to get around to it whenever I get around to it (that's my standard practice - I read slowly and can't keep up with my book purchases, so I have all kinds of things to read, for every mood).
Long story short, I picked this up and have tried to get into it, but the story starts off kind of silly, and stretches suspension-of-disbelief to the limits - and without that, Cussler's books are kind of otherwise pointless when you could be reading biographies and classics and popular science...
So about halfway through, I'm going to put it in my "Really Bad - Discard" pile. But I feel guilty, as if I wasted all that reading time on nothing.
