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?
If your book is a surface-level dive into the seedy underbelly of the American suburban middle-class family, I am not interested in your book. (See: Jonathan Franzen, Celeste Ng, John Irving)
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write what you know is why there are so many books about english professors considering having an affair
Revolutionary Road, right?
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