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Originally Posted by lotuzzdiabetes
Is there anything that irritates you when you come across it in books? Somthing in the title, plot, cover, method of writing, character trait, or anything else? For me it is love triangles. I hate them with a passion. I am a big believer in polyamoury and seeing a pointless stupid love triangle can ruin a story for me. I will still read it but I am never happy about the added useless drama. They are way too common since the "success" of twilight and a lazy writing gimmick. And they are always with a straight woman in a middle. Never with LGBT characters. Also, It would still be dumb even with that but at least they would get points for originality. And it isn't realistic. The attraction for someone in real life is only very seldom split between two people equally. The characters typically have so many more important things to worry about. So what irritates you?
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Why so much passion about a story element? Why is love pointless? And if it's pointless to you why not accept that it's important to others. I'm an atheist but I have no problems with characters in books with religious beliefs. I'd hate to read only books about people like me. I've read some beautiful novels about religious people. In fact "The Robe" by Lloyd C Douglas is one of my favorites. I was a teen when I first read it and I've probably read it at least every 4 or 5 years since the mid 1950's. It's a beautiful book.
I suggest you consider the various adjectives you're using to describe most of the people in this world. Some might be good people. Some might even be interesting people.
Authors tend to write about what they know and most authors, like most people, are straight and have encountered love triangles. So they write about them. And others read about them. That's probably one of the most successful story elements of all. It must have something going for it.
I have no problem with gay characters or situations in books. I've encountered them quite a few times. All I ask is that the stories be good and the characters be interesting.
Barry