Finished my 50th book this week and honestly didn't expect to feel this way

Everyone talks about how great it feels to hit landmarks like this, but I actually felt a little let down. I bound Aldous Huxley's Brave New World in full leather with hand sewn endbands, took me around 60 hours total, and when I closed the last section I just thought "that's it?" Maybe I put too much pressure on the number meaning something. Has anyone else finished a big milestone project and just felt kinda empty instead of proud?

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paul3304d ago

Pushing 60 hours into a single book and expecting some kind of payoff might be setting the bar a bit high, don't you think? Sometimes a project is just a project.

the_kevin4d ago

Sometimes a project is just a project" really hit me, @paul330, but I think there's another side nobody's talking about. What if the long payoff isn't in the book itself but in how it changes your reading habits for good after you finish it? I had a 900 page doorstop that felt like a slog but actually retrained my patience, so now I actually finish shorter books instead of bouncing off them at the first slow chapter.