When a book is boring, should you just stop reading it?

The World

An English crime novelist recently urged readers who might be bored with a book to just chuck it across a room, angrily. Book lovers quickly weighed in with their own opinions on the matter. As The World’s Sarah Birnbaum reports, sometimes tossing a book is just what you need.

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