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> If I don’t find Black Swan interesting I should probably just donate it instead of suffering through it, for example.

I'm not only willing, I'm eager to give up on a book I don't either enjoy or find interesting. But I know a surprising number of people who force themselves to finish any book that they start.

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Unless a book shows an actual lack of skill or intelligence behind it, I will persist and finish it, because many of my favorite books are books I didn't realize were as amazing as they are until I got quite a distance into them.

Skipping few pages always helps. Sometimes some concepts are hard to chew through. Black Swan in my opinion is a great book!

I didn't say that I stop if I find a book difficult. I stop if I decide that I don't like the book. But you're right, some times skipping some pages can get you going again with a dry spot in a novel.

(And I wasn't commenting on Black Swan, just on the concept of not finishing a book. I'm unfamiliar with Black Swan.)

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