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?

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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

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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

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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