What would cause you to stop reading a book half-way through?
What would cause you to stop reading a book half-way through?
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What would cause you to stop reading a book half-way through?
poor writing… poor characters…. cannot latch on to the story…. a better book that i really want to read comes out
I would have to agree with you those are the same for me
^ Pretty much exactly what @Summer said.
All of what summer said of course. Bad/cheesy dialog between characters is another. I just recently put one down due to that.
Bad language, needless sex, badly written characters/plot, unlikable characters/plot.
Needless sex! Especially when it’s supposed to be romantic and the dialogue is all wrong.
Is there such a thing as needless sex…Lol.
Lmao @Mayflor
Usually when I book has me performing so many eyerolls I get a headache. My particular pet peeves are bad dialogue and when the author does not stick to the reality of the time period they have chosen as the setting of their story.
If it’s a bland story, nothing exciting happening, if its confusing and hard to connect with the characters. Also insta-love can be a reason as well.
Ohh..you dont like love at first sight kind of story?
Not if it’s too instant and easy. I like love that doesn’t always happen right away, that it takes time and maybe some rough patches like a real love story. I mean it’s fine but it can be annoying and not as realistic.
What Summer and Lucy said…
If I’m bored–the author dumbing it down at me, repeating every damn, boring insignificant detail
It gets so boring that I give up. I did that on the book reached by Allie condie. It was just boring and not really well written
If the book title is Allegiant…
Nice one…lol.
Very long, drawn out chapters, becoming upset with characters, excessive descriptions, lack of punctuation and faulty grammar, too many or too detailed erotic scenes (some authors use this as a crutch when there’s not much to the plot). I struggled in the beginning with Those Who Save Us because the author didn’t use quotation marks in the dialogues. Found it confusing. Glad I stuck with it, though, it’s a great read.
Why would a book gets published with so many errors..? Theres a proof reading right? Sigh 🙁
I guess there are many proofreaders out of a job today. I see it daily in newspapers, magazines, ads. But books are “sacred”. They should be proofread.
I find at least two typos in every single book I read–even old ones.
I did stop reading in the middle of book three or four of the Sword of Truth novels by Terry Goodkind. I like the characters but his books are so long and he uses “roadblocks” to the plot so often it was annoying. Like a problem popped up and then it took 200 pages to resolve. It was so predictable where it was going.
If it just wasnt that good. Or i had to return it to the liberey
A boring story with nothing that I can relate to.
If I don’t like it I just stop, my sister tho will read almost anything to the end ?
I will too
I have to be hooked after the first 2-3 chapters otherwise I find myself looking for something else to read x