The 100 Page Treatment: When To Give Up On A Bad Book?
10 min readApr 19, 2024
Many years ago, at some point in the early 2000s, a friend of mine was remarking that he never knew when to give up on a book. As it just so happened, maybe six months at most before this, I had coincidentally settled on a solution to this problem myself: what I’ve come to think of as the 100 Page Treatment. As in, if I’m not into a book by page 100, then it’s time to give it the ol’ heave ho…