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?

    • Alex_Jones [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      'Her skin was dark like rich chocolate' things like that.

      • duderium [he/him]
        hexagon
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        3 years ago

        Oy vey. I thought you meant something like, hinting that someone is italian because they like pizza.

        • StuporTrooper [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          "Her skin was a pale and glistening with sweat, like some fresh mozzarella melting on a pizza."