"To finish, or not to finish"

     I recently read a blog post about whether or not to finish a novel you have started and don't like. My opinion on this subject has always been pretty simple and straightforward: Why waste my time finishing a book I am not enjoying when there are so many good books out there for me to be reading? And...more importantly, if the author can't make a good beginning, why will the ending be any good? Or on the flip side, if you do write an incredible ending why couldn't you make the beginning worth slogging through? Normally, I give a book a couple chapters at most to decide if I like it and am going to finish it. If it doesn't grab me, I quit reading and try something different. I have found that it's not always the book's fault. Some days it depends on the "reading mood" I am in. I might be mentally tired of reading a certain type of book and if I start this same novel again in a few months, I may love one that I have previously found boring and quit. There has been one book that took me until page 63 and 3 different times of taking it home and trying again to finish it. I only stuck with it that long because so many people told me I needed to read this particular book. Granted, when I finally made it past page 63, I ended up liking it and going on to finish the trilogy. I do still wonder, though, why, if I ended up enjoying the book, did I hate the beginning in the first place?
     Back to the blog, I recently read. This blog cited an article in The Atlantic about whether or not one should finish a novel they have begun. After having read this article, I can see another side to the whole issue of finishing or not finishing a novel you've at once begun. Perhaps, there is something to be said for being a tenacious reader. What do you think? Is it better to finish something you've started, or move on to something bigger and better. Check out the article and let me know what you think!

Happy Reading in 2015!