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"I used to subscribe to the notion of finishing every book no matter what, but later I came to the conclusion that life is simply to short to waste time on books which I do not enjoy. Unless this book is an obligatory reading for your school or university, you are absolutely under no obligation to finish it if you do not like it. What is the point in plodding through a boring book if there may be dozen others which would genuinely interest you or even enchant you? This is turning what should be a pleasurable activity and a joy into some kind of weird torture  No wonder so many young people avoid reading books since they associate reading with being forced to go through texts in which they cannot find anything interesting. But reading is actually one of the most wonderful pastimes if a book is well-chosen. Good reviews do not mean that you would enjoy a given book, so if you do not like a current bestseller, there is nothing wrong with you at all  I once started a fantasy novel which has positive reviews and the blurb also seemed enticing, but it turned out that the characters were not only flat, but also behaved in a totally unrealistic way as far as human psychology is concerned, and the plot was quite predictable, so I simply stopped reading it and switched to another book. I have read quite a lot since  and most of these were great reads, unlike this unfortunate novel.  Maybe it is more important to be consistent with courses, but what is the point of continuing a course if it stops to be relevant to you? The course description may often seem promising, but if the actual course does not live up to your expectation, why should you devote your precious time to it? Anyway, I usually subscribe to every course the subject of which may remotely interest me now or in the future, so that I can download the course materials to study them later on my own pace. When the course is finished, in most MOOCs (apart from FutureLearn ones) the course materials are no longer accessible, but if you are enrolled, you can download them for later study. Otherwise you have to wait for another edition of the course to view the lectures. And since I would not get any certificates, it does not matter when I would actually view the material.  \n"
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