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I hardly ever stop reading a book. I recently stopped reading The Name of the Rose by Eco, which was the first book in years I put aside, because his writing style just isn't something I enjoy (at the time).
Some things that irritate me:
* each chapter ends with a cliffhanger
* too much sex without a good reason or described at length
* sex, violence, cursing only used to shock the audience
* main character feeling sorry for himself (I almost decided not to go on the the Dresden Files for this reason, luckily after the first couple of books Harry seems to stop whining so much)
* when a series feels more like one book cut into several parts, I like each book in a series to have a storyline of it's own, which is resolved at the end of the book, besides the overall storyline of the series.
* I can forgive spelling, grammar and OCR mistakes up to a certain point. I read one book that had people continually "wrapping" on doors, I just couldn't take the story serious any more.
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