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?
Oh no I died and woke up in a fantasy world where my mediocrity actually makes me the winningest winner and all these neotenic fangirls are fighting over my attention! Also any sociopolitical hangups I have are indulged here, so maybe I'll get a false rape accusation and one day the rape accuser will be raped to death while a crowd cheers on her comeuppance! :so-true:
All fictional literature is sexual pathology,