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?

    • replaceable [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I have only read a couple of light novels, my experience with these tropes mainly comes from reading manga or fanfiction.

      The slanted power dynamic thing does explain why i hate harems as when i read romance novels i avoid ones with uneven power dynamics like for example one of the main characters being a billionaire.

      • UlyssesT
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