> "Life is too short to read a bad book." James Joyce. — Norma Jeane (@surrealistkedi) May 30, 2016 [https://twitter.com/surrealistkedi/status/737084335719874561] Oridinally seen at Tumblr [http://wordpainting.tumblr.com/post/145152651545/amospoe-life-is-too-short-to-read-a-bad-book]…
> Schopenhauer, on not reading pic.twitter.com/yvBEvieU2k [http://t.co/yvBEvieU2k] — Michael Clemens (@m_clem) September 26, 2015 [https://twitter.com/m_clem/status/647824003093143552] This feels like a corollary to the Rule of Fifty.…
via Oxford Academic [http://oupacademic.tumblr.com/post/88621717265/whatisabook-wentworth-dillon]. I rediscovered this while reviewing liked posts over at Tumblr. Seems to validate the Rule of Fifty and is certainly a good thought to hold the day after I drafted a reading list for next year.…
Via Poets and Writers [http://poetsandwriters.tumblr.com/post/105026473196/dont-settle-dont-finish-crappy-books-if-you] , Chris Brogan raises the stakes for the Rule of Fifty— > “Don’t settle. Don’t finish crappy books. If you don’t like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you’re not on the right path, get off…
Here's a different application of the rule of fifty. via Book Mania! [http://bookmania.me/post/103484304252/from-the-republic-of-love-by-carol-shields]…
Lifehacker cites the post Austin Kleon cited when he got me started on the Rule of Fifty [http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/PobR-etxmHU/read-50-pages-before-deciding-to-drop-a-book-1660458546] . The comments at Nancy Pearl's blog offer some interesting thoughts and variations: the severe "my first-page test. If the author…
Over at The Atlantic, Juliet Lapidos says she finishes every novel she starts to read [http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/11/stop-making-excuses-and-finish-that-book/381795/?single_page=true] and takes on The Rule of Fifty [https://mikeschultz.ghost.io/tag/rule-of-fifty/] > “The most common defense of book-dropping I hear…
Austin Kleon has weighed in with another statement of the Rule of Fifty [https://mikeschultz.ghost.io/rule-of-fifty/]. via AustinKleon.com [http://austinkleon.com/2014/10/17/33-thoughts-on-reading/]…