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?

  • KollontaiWasRight [she/her,they/them]
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    3 years ago

    One second, I'm gonna have to cross my arms under my breasts and tug on my ponytail to indicate that I am upset.

    Okay, got that out of the way, although somehow one of my arms has become three feet long and completely bendy in order to accomplish it.

    Had Robert Jordan just never met a woman? It's painfully bad.