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POLL: Biggest Book Pet Peeves

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What are your biggest book pet peeves?
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  • MenrandesMenrandes member
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    When the narration changes perspective frequently, but the characters don't seem to be different in their inner monologue. 
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  • booknerd226booknerd226 member
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    I was just thinking about this earlier. On my FB feed there is a discussion going on about book endings, and whether or not people like a nice, tidy ending or a more open-ended, fill in your own blanks ending. The discussion also seemed to include books/TV shows/movies with satisfying or terrible endings.

    I would say that my biggest book pet peeve is a bad ending. Even if the book is only okay, I don't want to invest all that time (and emotion) into a book just to be disappointed at the end. 

    This is minor, but I also hate when I read a sentence and I can't tell who the pronoun/speech goes to. For example, if there is a discussion between two women and the writer just keeps using "she" and "her" and I have to stop and read over it again to figure out who is saying what. Or they'll be standing together or something and then one of the characters says something but it doesn't specify who said it. Rage.
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  • booneybearbooneybear member
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    "I am at page ______, does this book get any better"?  
    90 books in 2015?
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  • taylormillgirltaylormillgirl member
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    Sad endings, or open endings where I'm supposed to interpret what really happened. 
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  • sfgiantsjosfgiantsjo member
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    Menrandes said:
    When the narration changes perspective frequently, but the characters don't seem to be different in their inner monologue. 
    *cough* Allegiant *cough*
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  • CTDec03BrideCTDec03Bride member
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    abs05 said:
    Having to wait 8 trillion thousand years for the sequel or next book in the series.
     
    This!!!

    Jessica, Married to Brian 12/27/03, Mom to Alex 6/27/94, Devin 10/29/04, and Emily 1/15/07
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  • InLovewSBInLovewSB member
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    Poor editing. I hate paying for a book only to realize I've purchased unreadable fanfiction written by a 16 year old.
    ~ G ~ 10/2008
    ~ E ~ 7/2010
    ~ A ~ 3/2014
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  • MrsJenEMrsJenE member
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    pinkybooklover09 said:
    When werewolf boys who were in love with a girl FOR THREE BOOKS just go ahead and imprint on her newborn half vampire baby. 

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  • sassypants527sassypants527 member
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    An anticlimactic ending bugs me. I hate when you've been happily reading for hundreds of pages and then the author just kind of ends things abruptly and too tied up. It's like hitting a brick wall. 

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  • GilliCGilliC member
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    1. "Trilogies" or "series" where the books cannot possibly stand on their own and stop mid-plot on a cliffhanger. That's not a trilogy. That's a long novel published in multiple volumes. Dear knock-off fantasy writers, If that model was okay for friggin' Dickens, it's okay for you.

    2. When the setting ends up completely clichéed, because it's obvious that the author just used a guidebook or internet search to fill in the "local flavor." Doubly so for name-dropping "popular" locations that are pretty much just tourist traps.

    3. I also hate most euphemisms used in erotica for the female genitalia. I think I've been on TN and its spinoffs for too long, because anything other than the anatomical terms reads as intentionally silly to me.
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  • jason&robinjason&robin member
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    Quick endings where you have all this climax and then it's just over...not much of a happy ending.
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