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?
old-timey prose. especially 18th century, fucking kills my brain to read, even when im interested in the topic/plot, whatever
Dangerous Liasons is a interesting story and good movie but reading the book... HELLISH
Robespierre, awesome dude, great quotes, but unedited? Nonononono
if their sentence has more than two semicolons they need to slow the fuck down
You should open up Mason & Dixon next time you’re in a library or bookstore. The dedication to the bit is just astounding
im the kind of sicko who might extremely dig that. as much as i hate the genuine article i've wrote more than one enlightenment style parody essays :agony-soviet: