top ten book turn-offs you encounter while reading
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This week a very special friend offered to help me with my top ten. I'm pretty sure it was just a secret ploy to get me active again with my blog. Regardless, I'm very thankful for her suggestions and her friendship. I now give you our joint list of top ten for the week.
1. Sequels that completely retell the previous novel. Why call it a series if I could read each book alone.
2. Font/line spacing. Especially, the small bold font with horrible line spacing. Would love to read A Suitable Boy someday but I'm sorry, the font is offensive.
3. Cliche character monologue with their "inner self." Yes, Anastasia, your inner goddess is cooler than you. Maybe she should just tell this story, it's not cute anymore.
4. Insta-love. Barf. Give me something real. Thanks.
5. Poor editing. Nothing is more irking that reading a great book with grammatical errors.
6. Book characters with similar names. Why would an author do this? Is the point to confuse the crap out of us or do you just not want your characters to be distinguishable from the beginning.
7. Animal cruelty. Pretty self-explanatory. I just can't handle the subject matter. Even reading Water for Elephants made me want to go ninja kick some circus fools. Don't even get me started on neglect or abuse of family pets in stories.
8. Love triangles. I just regurgitated that insta-love story I swallowed against my will.
9. Self-deprivating characters. Bleh. Not entertaining.
10. A pretentious narrator. It's hard to throat punch someone through the words of a book. So I'd rather deal with these people in real life only. Greater self gratification involved that way.
This week a very special friend offered to help me with my top ten. I'm pretty sure it was just a secret ploy to get me active again with my blog. Regardless, I'm very thankful for her suggestions and her friendship. I now give you our joint list of top ten for the week.
1. Sequels that completely retell the previous novel. Why call it a series if I could read each book alone.
2. Font/line spacing. Especially, the small bold font with horrible line spacing. Would love to read A Suitable Boy someday but I'm sorry, the font is offensive.
3. Cliche character monologue with their "inner self." Yes, Anastasia, your inner goddess is cooler than you. Maybe she should just tell this story, it's not cute anymore.
4. Insta-love. Barf. Give me something real. Thanks.
5. Poor editing. Nothing is more irking that reading a great book with grammatical errors.
6. Book characters with similar names. Why would an author do this? Is the point to confuse the crap out of us or do you just not want your characters to be distinguishable from the beginning.
7. Animal cruelty. Pretty self-explanatory. I just can't handle the subject matter. Even reading Water for Elephants made me want to go ninja kick some circus fools. Don't even get me started on neglect or abuse of family pets in stories.
8. Love triangles. I just regurgitated that insta-love story I swallowed against my will.
9. Self-deprivating characters. Bleh. Not entertaining.
10. A pretentious narrator. It's hard to throat punch someone through the words of a book. So I'd rather deal with these people in real life only. Greater self gratification involved that way.
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