What’s the most petty reason you’ve gotten mad at a book and had to put it down?
What’s the most petty reason you’ve gotten mad at a book and had to put it down?
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What’s the most petty reason you’ve gotten mad at a book and had to put it down?
Someone in the book I’m reading just put a _tourniquet_ around a surface leg wound that was oozing. Like, thanks Patroclus, this guy just lost his leg because you don’t know basic first aid. ???
I critique medical stuff like that during tv shows. I’m all, they can’t have that conversation right now, he’s still in the recovery room! Ect.
@Angy I’m just being a snot because I just got my recert for first aid so it’s fresh on my mind ??
I threw a book across a room and out a window once because they killed off a main character.
Been there!
@Angy Me too! I was reading myself to sleep, all snuggly and on the verge of dropping off, and the hero fell off a building :(.
Grammar mistakes everywhere make me so angry I will put it down and write bad reviews.
It’s kinda disappointing you know…knowing that other people said it is sooooooo goooodddd!??
I threw the other sister (or something like that) when I found out the ending
Endings that are cop-outs. Letting me and the protagonist down…
dumb character name
@Teresa RENESMEE CULLEN JUST SHOOT ME
Coworker’s granddaughter is named Renesmee. I internally eyeroll every time I hear it ??
@Kristen oh noooooooo
Yellow cover
Jodi Picoult books do this to me. We have broken up bc I don’t fancy being emotionally manipulated.
Usually the horrendous writing. 50 shades was chucked across the room several times but I was determined to finish to see what all the fuss was about. Stupid, should have left it on the floor ?
I burned mine. I hate seeing damage down to books and will walk through hell and back for books but that series, ugh. I didn’t want anyone else to suffer
@Elizabeth ???
The author constantly telling you the same thing over and over
@Donna I didn’t finish the book Princess of Mars by the same guy who wrote Fahrenheit 451 because he kept using the phrase “on Mars” like I get that science fiction was a new concept then and the idea of being on Mars was super wild BUT HOLY FUCK IT WAS AT THE END OF AT LEAST EVERY THIRD SENTENCE. I just couldn’t.
@April I couldn’t finish Clan Of The Cave Bear because the author told you the healer of the clan would’ve be ostracised from the clan because of her disability if her brother wasn’t head of the clan every other page, I just went nope not dealing with that
@Donna BUT DONNA THE HEALER OF THE CLAN WOULD’VE BEEN OSTRACIZED FROM THE CLAN BECAUSE OF HER DISABILITY IF HER BROTHER WASN’T HEAD OF THE CLAN
@April on Mars lol ?
I’m feeling like this about A Prayer For Owen Meaney right now.
@Sharyn you don’t have to finish it. This is a safe space
The word “impotent” It was never used to describe an inability to get “it” up, but every time I read impotent my brain pictured a limp penis. After what felt like the hundredth time I read impotent I found myself falling down a rabbit hole thinking about penises and other words that would have worked.
@Sharie haha. I have this issue with the word ejaculated! Older books tend to use it to describe someone speaking sharply but thats not what comes to mind when i see the word ?
Because it finished on a massive cliff hanger! I nearly lobbed my Nook through the window I was that mad lol
The characters are obnoxious
Plot utterly unbelievable so much so it all.becomes boring
I started reading “The Rice Mother” and found too much negativity as I red through it. My baby girl was just a month old, I stopped reading that book because I got a feeling that the negative vibes from the book might get passed over to my daughter ?
The way dragonfly in amber started caused me to have a full blown meltdown with ugly tears and everything. Almost gave up the Outlander series on book 2. ?
When I see the word ‘gotten.’
I saw how an author interacted with her fans and stopped reading her books.
@Dell which author?
@Dell I’d love to know too.
@Dell is it Jodi? I hate her books hahaha.
@Jessica lol, not Jodi.
Bad dialogue
@Pauline the kind of dialogue that makes you wonder if the author has ever actually spoken to anyone in real life
Grammatical errors
‘Allot’ does me in every time I see it!
@Sandy for me it’s the difference between lose and loose
@April . I can usually get past a couple of spelling or grammatical errors but when they start to mount up, the book is done!
Pushing their politics and personal views into every book!
Lazy writing. Especially endings that are farfetched or don’t make sense
The main characters love interests name was my ex husbands name, I was done after that and didn’t finish.
@Nichole this is the kind of pettiness this post was made for ?
I agree… I switched my kids dentist because his name was the same as my ex!
Typos.
Mis spellings and/or typos!
Repetition, repetition, repetition. Or grammar / spelling mistakes ?
Using the word “ padded” ?
@Carole as in bra or as in walked? ?
haha as in walked… authors seem to think it’s a clever word but it’s been over used and is just lazy writing!
@Carole I’m glad I’m not the only one! I just finished hunger games and when I read that the character padded across the room, I actually groaned in annoyance
@Elizabeth I have been enjoying a book until someone padded… then it was game over! ?
@Carole it’s sad to see authors not try to branch out for better language
I agree… a good plot can be ruined by poor choice of words…
@Carole exactly! Or like I posted in the comments, the over stating someone’s full name. If we know the character than we don’t need to constantly refer to the character with their full name
Nothing has ever annoyed me
as much as the book I was reading last week where a character tells his mother it time she thought about a care Home … she was 59! ?
@Carole I would’ve jack slapped him
I was listening to an audio book that is a YA book. The college kid was acting like a bratty college kid. I have 2 of those in real life. Lol. Didn’t need to read it. ?
Aside from spelling. I got mad at the lesbians who were interested in one another but wouldn’t speak up. They just kept hiding from one another. I almost threw my book in frustration.
I’ve gotten over it but when books have to use a full name when the character is talked about or talking. Like we get that John Smith’s name is John Smith but we don’t need to say “John Smith’s hair looked amazing today. Oh and John Smith was elegantly dressed as well”. OHMYLAWD
The main character was annoying ?♀️?♀️ she was a super smart witch that literally had her family’s legacy hanging in her choices she made. She was acting like an obnoxious little kid.
I threw Where the Red Fern Grows across the room when the dogs died
@Michelle that’s the first book that made me cry. My 4th grade teacher read it aloud in class and I Had to go to the counselors office because I couldnt calm myself down!! Haha
@Michelle THIS IS NOT PETTY THIS IS REAL SHIT. ?? that book had no right doing that
I don’t read books with animals in it because of this.
The ending of bring me back because it’s terrible ?
Gone Girl- the ending to that book was terrible!
Agreed!
Girl in cabin 10 – couldn’t make it past chapter 3 because the tone and grammar was awful….?
Raging waters – Danielle Steel. Felt like I was back at school and being lectured
The couple next door!So Rubbish and people keep ravin about it how great it is!MEH!!!!!
@Suzy I thought this book was pants too but everyone went on and on about it….!
@Suzy hey how is that I have it on hold at the library.
@Beccles thank you!!!So predictable and even to the fact it is boring!
That sucks I really need a good read.
@Sheryl don’t bother!!
@Suzy thanks
@Sheryl unless u want to prove me right!:)))
haha I’m fine. I just really need a goo one. I’m a thriller/ mystery person and I’m having a dry spell
@Sheryl have you read The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson?
I have not. I’ll check it out.
@Sheryl promise it will be a thrilling read!Also I recommend:Renee Knight:Disclaimer and Louise Doughty:Apple Tree Yard!Happy reading!
@Suzy thanks so much.
@Sheryl you are welcome!Private feedback after!:)))You will Love the twists in all of them!
Some titles are difficult to find in my library. I’ll look for them for sure.
@Suzy I loved Apple Tree Yard ….but I loved the BBC production better than the book! First time that has ever happened ?
Shoot i just bought today as i had heard othets comment they liked.
@Roxane you may like it but I hated it!:)
Couldn’t read The Luckiest Girl Alive, because the characters were so shallow!!!!
I second that, Tamra.
I promised myself I would stop reading any book when the author writes that a man “cursed gruffly under his breath” or “cursed violently under his breath”. Like god forbid my delicate ears / eyes come across a “curse” word. If an author can’t write the word then just forget about the sentiment entirely.
Sorry I had to rant about that.!
When duddits was killed in Stephen kings dreamcatcher
When Ann Rice started suggesting that Jesus was a vampire ?. She lost me there! Lol
i haven’t read that book. Now I might have to ???
@Toni yep! Didn’t read another word after that!!
Now that is really a crappy book!??
Cover wasn’t broke in and it was really tight to hold it open.
@Milton this is legit pettiness. ? “it’s just too much work to read this one. NEXT.”
Yes. I prefer hardbacks ?
I spilt beans on it
@Watkin that’s a serious situation, not petty at all ?
Haha – this is my favorite reason ??
It’s stupid, but when the main character gets everything they want and doesn’t have to sacrifice a single thing. I can’t stand that
Me too!
In a dirty job I enjoyed it at first but the characters were just so vapid and Jane just…. Very unlikable.
I put the book down halfway through and haven’t regretted it
I couldn’t finish 50 shades of grey because she said “inner goddess” way too many times! ? I absolutely got mad at that and threw the book a few times. I wanted to like the book and movie… but hated them both ?
@StephanieRoush…..I so wanted to punch Het inner goddess….lol.
stupid character names
that is what i said too 🙂
Incorrect geographical references.
@Sheryl I get petty about shit like this too. Like I get that an author can’t know everything about everything but I expect them to have access to a freaking map. Don’t write a setting you don’t know anything about. ?
Especially if it’s my own state. That really grinds my gears.
Right? You’re just like
I gave up on Patricia Cornwell when she said sirens were “welping.” Haven’t read anything by her since. This is just lazy writing.
?????
It was in Brail?
I’m currently reading When We Were Young for a book club and by chapter 3 I was so irritated with the way the author keeps going on and on repeating the same thing over and over. Now I’m almost half way through and I feel like I’m being lectured on God ?? hope it gets better.
Can’t remember the name of the book, but the first sentence was nearly a paragraph long with about 20 commas breaking it up. Couldn’t read any further ?
When main character is too whiny or too “goody two shoes”
Bad writing
Bad writing! Too predictable! A damsel in distress character and whinny and a ridiculous name! Bad plot! And I really hate if there’s too much cliché part in there! And I really despise a character who knows it all!!!???
Bad writing by Jay Caspian Kang, The Dead Do Not Improve, neither did the story ?
Sometimes in their zeal to create an intelligent book, authors will put so many characters into the story I can’t keep them straight without making a list. Sometimes less is better.
when it’s not well written
@Isa that’s not petty, that is perfectly legitimate! Many authors are out there working their tails off trying to get published, then some garbage gets printed instead…
@Sue true, and i can’t stand it!
The main character kept whining. Like, teenage angst whining.
@Candance Twilight??? ???
Typo’s!!
The characters and the way they behave are completely unbelievable
Never have yet.
Boring storyline and unimaginative writing style… sadly this happened with the last book I picked up…
I didn’t like the look/size of the font ?
That’s why I love my Kindle!
@Madison true pettiness ???
Tiny print
I’m the same
Annoying names that are hard to pronounce
Series of unfortunate events kept defining words
When the similes are ridiculous. Like in ‘the dressmaker’…. his toupee flew off like a discarded scrotum …. ???
@Kelly ? ? ?
@Nina I can laugh about it now but, you should have seen me when I first read it
I’m pretty sure he never saw that happen ?
When I realized a famous author, with many books written, doesn’t actually fill pages with interesting read. She actually repeats useless stuff over and over, trying to just fill pages.
Oh yes!!! Or series where you are reminded endlessly what happened in the other book(s).
Incorrect information about alcohol and breastfeeding.
I don’t appreciate authors inserting their political beliefs in an otherwise good novel.
@Phyllis yes! I was reading a book that I thought was good and in the middle was an antisemitic, anti Israel rant, having nothing to do with the storyline.
I returned the book and never finished it.
I agree, Karen, self indulgent on the authors part.
Harry Potter and the deadly hollows, when the killed one of the weasley twins.
Read two books by the same author and she used the word ‘channel’ for lady bits in both books so I didnt bother reading her other books. A shame as otherwise they were good reads. But that one word….No. Just wrong
@Carol and this is how I’m going to start referring to em. Wait til my husband finds out ???
Author was J H Croix if you fancy a looksy. Great stories other than the obvious cringer word
@Carol I’M GOOD NOT SURE I COULD GET THROUGH THAT THANKS.
“channel”
John Grisham, A Painted House. It’s like he just quit writing…terrible ending! I threw it across the room.?