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?
At least it isn't Terry Goodkind's Ayn-Rand-With-Swords fascist shit.
If some treats defender on Hexbear stood up and unironically defended that, I'd transcend to a new level of Jokerfication. :joker-che:
no that's cool specifically because it's such hilarious libertarian garbage
It's not fun to laugh at a garbage fire when people have to breathe in the fumes.
I went to school alongside lots of Terry Goodkind fans. Without exception all of them already were, or became, cryptofash Randroids and some are also now cops or even hold public office. That's not hilarious to me. :desolate:
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