What's your red flag for the writer when you start a book?
What's your red flag for the writer when you start a book?
Author is a white heterossexual male.
Author is an old dead religious white guy
Even the live ones.
I read a Tory Anglican idea of Roman history and nearly stopped.
The book opens with a description of a place
author is a woman
Profanity, I refuse to read a novel that has arbitrary swearing in it.
Who's this beautiful lady?
Who is this weanus-covered penis lover?
This jizz mizz
This glob slob
Who is this load toad
Who is this semen demon?
Just a wallpaper I found. sorry fellas
He mentions the name of the book in the first paragraph. When I started reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez I almost wanted to choke him when he begun the novel with a "And Colonel Aureliano thought to himself: "I will spend one hundred years of solitude". Fucking hack.
this is not even a common trend
>"Haha that was great, what do you call yourselves?"
>"The Brothers Karamazov"
Goddamnit Dostoevsky
How did dustyplebski get away with writing such abject depravity in this scene
It's common enough to bug me. Dostoevsky is always doing this shit. "When, one day, Raskolnikov decided to go for a walk, he noticed he was actually THE IDIOT". Jesus Christ.
DOHSTEEYEVSKEE
who is this turd bird?
this
It's infuriating but he can actually pull it off.
>what's a computer?
Why does JP pronounce Dostoevsky so weirdly? Is it a Canadian thing or just the overall product of being an Anglo?
Unironically this
>not invoking the muses at the beginning of the story
never gonna make it