Is it that you don’t connect to the characters, or that the writing is weak? Maybe there’s one too many typos or the plot seems implausible.
Goodreads has created an infographic about the most abandoned books (Fifty Shades of Grey is among them) and the reasons for their abandonment based on the book reviews left on their website.
It’s a brief but interesting look into the mind of a reader ready to split.
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My stick-with-it tolerance depends entirely on the height and gravity of my triage book stack as the unopened ones silently clamor to replace the one at hand. When I have a nice pile of long-awaited titles it is easy for an author to make a fatal mistake that would be forgivable with more minor competitors, such as when Barbara Kingsolver, in Lacuna, described the spooky sounds of the howler monkeys in the jungle as “toothsome.” NOPE! Snapped it shut on page two.
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