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?
Understandable. The weird gender stuff prevented me from getting into it at all. That and the guy who introduced me to it ended up being a vaguely tradfash weirdo with plenty of his own gender brainworms.