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Lots of things can kill a book for me. Last week I read a book and the editing was so poor I wrote the publisher. Not that they cared. There were whole paragraphs without a space and frequently sentences without a space. "Nailed" became "hailed" and "intern" became "interest".
If a novel is factually incorrect. I don't enjoy fantasy as a genre and if a book set in Omaha, Nebraska, has the protagonist sitting on the beach watching surfers, he better have travelled a long way. If the author has made Omaha, Nebraska, a seaside resort, that's fantasy.
And, if the writing is slow and boring. I'll give a book 1/3 to pick up speed and then I'm likely to move on to something else.
Too much personal politics. If an author wants to use a book to push his personal politics I'll move on. Unless it has something to do with character development, I don't need to have characters in the book talking about how stupid President Obama or Governor Palin might be.
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