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?
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: