For me, shitty style / lazy writing make me put a book down immediately. I was raised on the worship of style you find in writers like Flaubert or Nabokov (who also happened to have deplorable political views) and I can’t shake it.
Others commented here recently that making every female character in a story into a sex object is a bad thing.
What are some reasons you’ll put a book down after you’ve spent at least a little time giving it a try?
I don't often just put down a novel and give up reading it. But last time I did it was the inherently sexist, gender-essentialist nature of the magic system baked into the entire setting that did it for me.
Which book was this?
The Eye of the World. For the life of me I will never understand why Wheel of Time is so popular with other people who like fantasy novels.
I couldn't stand the first book either and knew it was what you were referring to. I couldn't get into it at all and only later did I read up on the gender-based magic system.
One second, I'm gonna have to cross my arms under my breasts and tug on my ponytail to indicate that I am upset.
Okay, got that out of the way, although somehow one of my arms has become three feet long and completely bendy in order to accomplish it.
Had Robert Jordan just never met a woman? It's painfully bad.
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Well, yes, but that's only half as fun.
Wheel of Time is super popular even on Hexbear. :shrug-outta-hecks:
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unfortunately even hexbear users can be cringe sometimes 😔
At least it isn't Terry Goodkind's Ayn-Rand-With-Swords fascist shit.
If some treats defender on Hexbear stood up and unironically defended that, I'd transcend to a new level of Jokerfication. :joker-che:
no that's cool specifically because it's such hilarious libertarian garbage
It's not fun to laugh at a garbage fire when people have to breathe in the fumes.
I went to school alongside lots of Terry Goodkind fans. Without exception all of them already were, or became, cryptofash Randroids and some are also now cops or even hold public office. That's not hilarious to me. :desolate:
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As it should be, because it's really good.
goes back to muttering about Ilyena
Understandable. The weird gender stuff prevented me from getting into it at all. That and the guy who introduced me to it ended up being a vaguely tradfash weirdo with plenty of his own gender brainworms.
Sounds like just about every East Asian MMORPG. Some are so absurd that they have exceptions that serve their creepy fanbase, like "the only race that can be any class is the one that looks like 9 year olds with visible underwear."