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Originally Posted by VydorScope
I was surprise NOT to see listed things like:
1) Bad spelling
2) Bad grammar
3) Incorrect word usage
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If the story is only so-so, these will kill it for me, of course, but I think there's a vast overestimation of the importance of these points. If the story is good, most people, I find, will put up with an awful lot of bad spelling, grammar etc. Of course they'll comment, but the story will hold them. That's why you picked it up after all.
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Originally Posted by VydorScope
What do you all think? What kills a book for you? Long drawn out sex scenes do it for me. I would prefer something like "they spent the night in each others arms" and then move on.
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Well, there's a lot of difference between long drawn out and eight words! I can take a bit of titillation, but I agree, too long, and you're reading porn. Mine are usually a (longish) paragraph. And not too many of them in a book.