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What is the soonest you've ever DNFd a book? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by FacelessOldWoman1234@alien.top to c/books@metacritics.zone

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You wanted to read the book, you were excited to crack it open, you came into it with good faith and anticipation... but you ended up dnf-ing it. Which book and why?

Mine was The Maid by Nita Prose. It was for my book club and looked like a fun murder mystery. Instead I got instant manic-pixie-dream-neurodivergent-girl vibes, and I noped out before the crime scene was even found.

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[–] Roboculon@alien.top 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I legitimately started reading Fifty Shades of Grey without knowing what it was. I’d been packing for a trip and realized at the last second that I didn’t have anything to read on the plane, so I quickly scanned the top books for sale in my Kindle and added one after about 6 seconds of research. I figured it was probably fine, maybe about some sort of grey area moral issue or whatever.

What struck me about the book was how terribly it’s written from the very start. It’s like the author didn’t know enough words to fill each page, so they just repeated the same ones over and over. Eg, the characters “murmer” to each other like 4x per scene.

[–] KJParker888@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I had a friend tell me the series was "light, fluffy fun fiction" so I downloaded the first one. I struggled through about 100 pages before I gave up.

Seriously, if you're trying to write housewife porn, but your euphemism for genitalia is "down there", maybe pick a different genre.