reacting to your pettiest reasons for not reading a book or author 😅👀🤨 // part 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 พ.ค. 2024
- Back with another banger (hopefully)! Part 1 of reacting to your pettiest reasons for not reading a book or author. The pettiness continues in part 2: • reacting to even MORE ... 💕
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untrustworthy sources - 7:22
authors behaving badly - 11:47
professors with a phd in wildin out - 21:31
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OMG LMAOOO I'm dead. Pocheekie (baller name) is a gen z!!! I can't believe the site is still functioning.
Kind of annoyed at the "no self-published" books person.
Self-published (indie) =/= "got rejected by publishers."
Most indie authors go the self-publishing route right off of the bat because they don't WANT to pursue a traditional publishing house. I have read absolute garbage that was traditionally published and some truly amazing works from indie authors.
Period.
Suddenly my petty reasons don’t seem that petty after this 😂
Ikr it's like... Am I actually a person of logic and reason???
“…and you didn’t break up until December 31st. How big was it?” 😂🤣😅 I was NOT expecting that! Thank you for making me snort with laughter 😆
LMAO I am to keep y'all on your toes 😂
As someone in the fanfic community, there are indeed some authors that are very anti-fanfic, like Anne Rice, though, the real tea is with Diana Gabaldon (author of Outlander). She is very much against it (going so far as to call it immoral and illegal (which it isn’t as long as you don’t profit monetarily from it)) and said she never considered using “someone else’s character”, and yet, she has herself said Jamie Fraser is based on the companion of the 2nd Dr Who, Jamie McCrimmon, played by Frazer Hines… And let’s just say it’s not the only link with Dr Who. So some view Outlander as a fanfic of Dr Who… (someone on Tumblr wrote a whole piece about this, with quotes and all).
Omgggg love when people have the receipts lol. So what do you think of books like Bride by Ali Hazelwood? Apparently this is a fanfic of Twilight and is now a published book. Is it whack for her to make money off it?
@@litwithleigh For original work that started off as fanfic, I personally don’t think anyone who writes fanfic has a problem with it. Especially with AUs, where you can rename the characters, polish it and BOOM! you have an original story. So, no, I don’t think it’s whack that’s she’s making money off of it if she reworked it to make it into something original (otherwise Stephenie Meyer could sue her if it really felt too close to Twilight, which wouldn’t be a good thing for so many reasons 😆). As long as authors who do that don’t shit on fanfic writers later on, we’re good 😏
I think the ones who are most likely to make a fuss about that are “book snobs”. They just see fanfic as some product made by teen girls about their fantasies regarding a popular character or celebrity. So if they even hear a rumour that a book was originally published as a fanfic and then reworked to be officially published, well, obviously then the book is garbage and the publisher should have published an author with some original thoughts (they should diversify their offer, but that’s a different story). And 50 shades did not help (another that started off as Twilight fanfic…🙄).
My petty reasons are just "it's popular" which is really weird because I've watched shows purely because they're popular. 😅
LOL I feel this. When a book has 2282929 reviews and a 4.39 rating I'm like THAT'S SUSPICIOUS
When I was in middle school (age 11-13), I was super into Harry Potter like basically everyone else was at the time. I started writing fanfic in elementary school before knowing what fanfic even was. I liked the idea of expanding stories or changing things around to how I assumed they would be. Somehow I found out about the online fanfic community and I decided to post my stories on there. I wouldn't say anything I wrote was actually good, but they were alright for being written by an 11 year old.
Anyway, one day someone commented that I was a terrible writer, I should never write anything ever again, if that was what I thought was good enough to post online I should kms, and other really mean things. The internet was kind of new to me, but I had heard on the news about bullies on there. The library had a rule that if you posted anything mean online you'd be banned, so I ignored it and didn't respond. (Did I cry like a baby at night when no one was around? Absolutely, that shit hurt my feelings lol) Then it happened again, and again, and again, for YEARS. It lasted from 6th to 12th grade. The main person who bullied me? Cassandra Clare.
I thought maybe we were the same age at the time given how immature she was, but no, she in her THIRTIES doing that to an ELEVEN year old. It's not like I hid my age. My bio said I was 11. All my fanfic revolved around me being the age I was and the issues I faced at that age. The one time I asked her to please stop because she was being too mean, which I think I was 13 or 14 at the time, she got hundreds of people to attack me for "bullying" her when all I did was ask her to stop. Someone doxed me and a couple of people called my house at all hours of the night. It was so bad we had to change our phone number twice. I don't know if she had a direct role in that, but I still blame her for it as she very publicly asked people to attack my posts. Even when I went to other fanfic sites and wrote under different names she'd find me and start the same shit over again.
I've never read one of her books and refuse to. The one fanfic of hers I read was about umm... romantic love between family members... and that grossed me out. Anytime someone considers starting her series I try to divert them away from it. I used to explain to people what she did, but most of them were like "the past is in the past blah blah blah" which okay, fine, but she was the age I am now bullying children on the internet and very graphically detailing ways that I should kms. So now I find out what people hate in books and say it's a big part of the series. One of my friends gets grossed out by pregnancies so I told her pregnancies are a big part of the series and the birthing scenes are super long and extremely graphic. Another friends hate instalove and miscommunication, so I told her the whole series is about different characters experiencing instalove and the whole plot revolves around their miscommunications. Whatever people say they hate is what I tell them the book is about and I will pettily do that until the day I die lol.
WTF??? ok I've heard this author's name before associated with drama, but I never delved into it. This is absolutely HORRENDOUS. I'm so sorry you went through that. Now I'm gonna go down a Cassandra Clare rabbit hole. Also, it isn't petty. Extremely valid. Idk if she's sold in bookstores but you should cover up her books too lol
@@litwithleigh She was super popular awhile back with the City of Bones series, or whatever it's called. But omfg I do cover up her books anytime I see them! My bestie puts her books in the religious section since no one goes over there XD Reads With Rachel has a 3 part video about most the Cassandra Clare drama.
the shadowhunters universe is cool but the mortal instruments was originally a weasley sibling incest fanfic so i hate cassandra clare for that and now i have a new reason to dislike her, im sorry a sad grown up woman bullied you. also i hate the way she lowkey made one half of the canon lgbtq couple biphobic like plssss that was one part the tv show did better.
@@ninaninafishgirl A SIBLING WHAT?????
@@litwithleigh the more you know lmfaooo 😭👎
This is one of the funniest book tags I’ve seen 😂😂😂 “was it like ‘genocide is bad’ 🤪”
Thank youuuu 🥰 lmao but fr.... I need to know how serious the comment was
I've never not read a book for a petty reason but I did delay reading a book by months for what could be considered petty. Another person on TH-cam left a comment when I announced I was reading a book. He said "This is the first book you've talked about that I've heard of and have. We are going to enjoy reading it together". He ASSUMED a buddy read. He didn't ask for one and neither did I invite anyone to buddy read. And I usually talk about obscure books and he assumed a buddy read of a popular book most on Booktube know of. So I frustrated him by delaying my read.
LMAO just invited himself to the party eh? Valid or I would've speed read and posted about it before he even got to page 1 😂
I'm sorry but the anti-self published one makes me mad. Just because something does or doesn't get picked up by a Publisher doesn't mean it is or isn't good. I mean, Colleen Hoover is published, and I think she's atrocious. And imagine all the marginalized authors who got rejected out of hand for not being the right demographic, now you're dismissing them out of hand because of an assumption while they're fighting to be seen. Really conceited, in my opinion. Irrational and Ignorant.
No need to apologize when you're speaking facts 😉
girl you’re absolutely hilarious! i subscribed within the first five minutes 💀
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I had a history professor that would mention his book every chance he got. Granted, it's not a book I would gravitate towards normally, but he would insert the title every chance he had. He'd say a random fact about something that had nothing to do with the topic in class and then say "it's like in that book I wrote *insert book name here*" and sometimes he'd hold it up. Yeah... He carried it with him everywhere. He was also the kind of teacher that didn't do powerpoints. He typed up all the notes on a word doc at 8-10 sized font and expected people to be able to read it from every seat in the classroom, and no, he didn't put the notes online. He also would continuously scroll through the notes as he spoke, so he never stopped so people could write it down. The test questions were always written stupid too. He'd write a question, make it multiple choice, and then make more than one answer correct. The "correct" answer would end up being something we never even discussed and that wasn't in the text book, it's like when someone expects you to have read all the Star Wars or Star Trek novels to answer a question that has nothing to do with a movie trivia contest at a movie trivia contest. Obviously I'm still pissed about it and it's been years.
Ok your anger is valid lmao. It's a wonder these ppl are allowed to teach. I hope his book flopped tremendously.
@@litwithleigh exactly. In my experience with teachers, there are two different kinds, the ones that insert their book into everything and the ones that casually mention they write poetry sometimes. The latter was my high school English teacher and he was super chill. Never mentioned that he published his work, but I still find myself purchasing and reading it, because it’s genuinely good and he was a good guy.
Option 3: Dan isn't an uncommon name and neither is Brown. The online troll could actually have been named Dan Brown but not be the same person as the author.
She said he was pretending to be the author not just a random Dan Brown yelling at kids haha
If it's too popular, I won't read it until the hype dies down
Yeah my expectations get way too high
Real for anything
Coming from Kyiv: if you, for whatever reason, don't want to read Russian classics, you have my blessing. I read some of those in the original, you'd find 90% of them mid at best if you haven't been told how great they are your entire life. Dnf'ing War and Peace was the biggest act of self-care in my life.
I'm Iraqi living in UAE and I absolutely love Russian classics. Some are very heavy reads, but I loved them. I was conditioned by my grandpa though because he read doctor Zhivago to me when I was a child lolol. Chekhov is my fave though. Dostoyevsky has some good books but notes from the underground felt like an act of literary masochism, and not in the fun emotional rollercoaster way, but the pulling teeth trying to get through it way and it was his shortest book that I read!!!
My IQ is not high enough to be within 20 feet of any Russian classic so I am safe 😂
@@dr.zuzykitsune to me, Dostoevsky's whole body of work is an act of literary masochism, but you do you🤷
@@justwonder1404 yes his work is on the heavier side but I really enjoyed the brothers Karamazov. however, I went into his work knowing it's very heavy so I was prepared lol, but I can see it being literary masochism to many people.
I would argue that French lit can be as heavy as Russian depending on the writer, like les miserables is not a fun read, a good book but it's not "fun" lol.
@@litwithleigh with the way you word it I feel like saying "good for you" would be kinda rude lol
Not sleeping with your students is literally free as hell 😂
The book signing trauma..... GIRL WHAT 😲😭
lmaoooo I was stunned. Also he said you can pour as much sugar as you'd like into any Coke drink and it won't taste any sweeter... that's how sweet Coke is.
@@litwithleighwhat a nightmare. Where was his PR person. He was severely off script 😭
Also I'd love to hear more stories from your time in marketing and editing.
@@brooke5258 Lmaooo he was just vibing. Oh LAWD I have tons
I love this video! And I have to crack up every time you say, the word “hos!”
LOL thank you so much for watching 💖
Omg I loved every second of this. You are hilarious!
Thank you so much 🥰🥰🥰🥰
My pettiest reason is one of my lecturers at Uni on a reading a writing childrens literature course put her own book in the 'mandatory reading' list, so in theory everyone had to buy it.
I refused to buy is and have never read a word of her work.
Not petty. 200% valid. I'd refuse and leave her a one star on Goodreads and rate my prof LOL
what ? you sound really stupid. lots of professors put their books as mandatory reading. just borrow it from the uni library or get a library card.
This video was hilarious!!! I just love your snarky comments on everything, but this one was specially funny 💙💙
Aww thank you so much 🥰❤️
YASSS! I love ur channel !! I found u like last week, and I’ve watched like all of your videos. Plsssss do more reading vlogs, more read with me content!! Love this
Omg tysm 🥰🥰 yes I'm planning another reading vlog to document my first dark romance LOL
@@litwithleigh ouuuu I’m sat 👀 !
You seriously crack me up!! Love your videos
Thank you so much 🥰😊
just found your channel and girl i love you already! i subscribed straightaway and am currently dying of laughter watching all your videos
Omg stopppppp thank you so much for giving my channel a chance 🥰💖
I will quit a book in the first chapter if the characters' names bug me. And I found a grammatical error in the dedication -- the dedication! -- of a Dean Koontz book and refused to go further.
Omg that's rough re Koontz. Coho is always wilding when it comes to character names
@@litwithleigh Now that you mention it, that may be why I have not read any CoHo!
Best wishes with what you choose to read and to your channel. Happy reading.
Thank you 😊
Subscribed. Also the professor ones were SO valid, not petty at all. (except the last one, I would buy the books).
Thank you!!!❤️❤️ Agree. I had no idea profs were wilding like that.
Sometimes I don't read something I think I will enjoy because I'm scared it will let me down 😬
This is so real LOL. I have a couple sitting in my tbr that I was anxiously waiting for to drop but now I'm like... I'm too fragile to handle the disappointment
This is my first video of yours. Subscribed after 2 minutes!
Omg thank you!!!💖💖
Sometimes when I need to feel something I just look up the scene in Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants where America Ferrera calls her dad and says “Why didn’t you want me dad?” 😭😭 it wrecks me every time.
OMFG YES.
Girl omg you are so funny 🤣
Aw thank you 😘
I didn't read One Day by David Nichols for YEARS because I just recognised it as the book I always see in second hand shops (like at least one copy in every shop, at all times), with a sun bleached spine, it is always faded. It was the equivalent to an old carpet to me, I just looked at it and thought, no no no. I listened to the audiobook this year, picturing the sun bleached spine the whole time and thought I shouldn't have been so petty, I actually really liked the book 😅
Lmaooo blocking your own blessings 😂 been there as well
LMAOOOOO not your Colleen Hoover comments 😂😂😂
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I'll confess I used to have a 'no indie' rule, primarily because I prefer books that have been polished more. Well, I had to scrap that rule when I got to book three of a very popular, traditionally published series, and every ten pages had me going, "Where the HELL is the editor??"
Seriously, with that kind of popularity and money being earned, I'm absolutely bamboozled by the flagrant lack of editing
Right?!? I really don't get it sometimes. Elena Armas' The Spanish Love Deception used the word chest over 100x. You're telling me everyone who read it noticed but not the editor?? Pls
I can't consider reading any book with a title like "A fandangomery of songfires and windpipes" unless they were one of the first to do that title template. It's just such a generic and overdone thing and it makes me assume that the author doesn't have any originality whatsoever.
Also I was huge into Neopets back in like 2005-2009 lol
LOL I'm dropping part 2 of this video today and this exact reason is featured 😂 Neopets was THAT place
New subscriber, loved this video.
Omg thank youuuuuu💖🥰
I'm watching this 2 weeks late but you really do have a great sense of humour omg
I personally won't read any book that gets popular on Booktok because I know they're not gonna be something I enjoy. In relation to that I also, won't read anything where the main couple isn't LGBTQ+ in some way. I'm so sorry but I'm tired of reading about straight relationships that feel like the same copy paste-
Thank you so much!! Totally understand about straight relationships lol
Great video, but can you please display the comments beside you as you read them (if that's possible)? 😊
Yes I'll definitely do that next time 🙂 thanks for watching!
A book I was planning to read a book but they named the main character Cabbage.
Immediate one star lol
I would probably choose to read a book for the sole reason that a character is named Cabbage.
DAN BROWN HARASSED ME ON NEOPETS 💀💀
Lmaooo had me so dead
Ahhhh yes I want to buddy read with youuu!
Awesome! We're going to read The Blood Promise by Liz Mistry. It's a Scottish police procedural. I'll probably do a romance in June if you'd rather wait :) If you're interested, please add me on Storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/profile/litwithleigh and DM me on Goodreads your Kindle address
What if I told you… some self published books don’t even try to sell to a publisher? Traditional publishing takes a lot of advantage from authors, and very little people can actually live from what they’re paid.
Last year I only read indie books, and I only had 4 and 5 ⭐️ It all depends where you’re looking for books. You’re missing on great things if you refuse books just because they’re self published.
I think you're using "you" to speak to the person who submitted that opinion and not me because I didn't agree with their statement lol
@@litwithleigh Yeah, just as a general comment haha. I’ve heard that opinion plenty of times and it’s simply one I can never get behind.
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Oh shucks 🥺🥺🥺 thank you!!
I'm brazilian, and I'm so curious about who the "justin bieber of brazil" is supposed to be lmao
Nicholas Sparks! He's the guy behind The Notebook, The Vow etc
@litwithleigh ooohhh, I see
Justin bieber of brazil is a crazy statement, not a single person close to me has read The Notebook
Ok one of my somewhat petty reasons that has nothing really to do with the author herself. I will never read Sally Rooneys Normal People because the setting is the Trinity University in Dublin to which i had applied. Unfortunately my application had a somehwat wrong address which meant it got delivered too late and that was the reason i was not admitted!!! Then resulted in me having a panic attack haha. Never applied in the years after cause i then decided it was too expenisve and in my home country you barely have to pay anything for uni. Yeah so i think reading all about that college campus will only leave an entirely bad taste in my mouth.
From what I've heard about the book, you're not missing anything lol. I'm sorry about your application experience though!!
My petty reason is that my brother's girlfriend gave them to me around christmas... She's not a nice person to me anymore so I just haven't touched them. They don't look interesting anyway, but no shame to those that would like it
LOL what're the books??
I'm dying!!!🤣🤣🤣
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Lord of the Rings, books and movies. I was 14 and had worked my butt off all summer babysitting so I could buy my own laptop. I was so excited when I finally brought it home! But my step-dad said he would buy me a candy bar if I went 24 hours without using my computer, phone, or any other electronics. He made an exception for TV and convinced me to marathon Lord of the Rings with him. I had never seen it before, but I knew it was popular and figured I might as well.
I didnt realize they never end😑 my step dad is also the kind of nerdy type who wants to explain everything. Im the same way, but I got confused really fast. I fell asleep, so we watched the first one over again, then the second and third. My brain was so done with these short people and their problems. I also just wanted to try out my new computer, so i stuck it out. The chocolate bar was not worth it, but I was stubborn and would never say no to a bet. The only thing i remember liking was Golem. Now, as an adult, I love fantasy. But i refuse to read or watch Lord of the Rings because of that memory😅
SHORT PEOPLE AND THEIR PROBLEMS LMFAOOO💀💀💀 sparknotes could never summarize a book so aptly.
Hahahaa some of those petty reasons were hectic 😂 but authors that go for reviewers can stfu!!
These videos are everything ❤
Facts!!! Tysm🥰
I refuse to read books by any of the authors who participated in Sara Dessen drama. And I doubt I'll ever buy Sanderson's book so long as he's in his church. Cool that he has more progressive views now but he's still giving his anti-LGBTQIA+ church hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars every year.
Also agree with not reading authors who go off on not satisfactory ratings. Goodreads is not for the authors, if they want to read reviews there they should grow thicker skin and/or give away their access to social media. There's one horror author who was so annoyed his book ended up on one youtuber's worst books of the year list that he dedicated his next book to her (and I think made her a character who he brutalized it the book). Not in a good faith.
There was Sara dessen drama?! Oh nauuurrrr I remember loving her books as a teen. Gotta investigate that. Thanks for the heads up. Also is it accurate to say Sanderson is like the male CoHo of fantasy? She loves a pr0 alive moment.
Exactly my sentiments. Stay off Goodreads if you're not built for it. I remember that scandal. Honestly very scary for her.
@@litwithleigh if you want to know about author drama/tea, check out Reads with Rachel's "Authors Behaving Badly" series. I know for a fact that she did a video about the Sara Dessen debacle. lots of authors got swept up in it and put on their clown makeup XD
personally, at least wrt the content in his books, Sanderson is nowhere near as bad as CoHo. and from what I understand, he doesn't try to stealthily insert any religious propaganda into his books (unlike, say, Stephenie Meyer), which is a pretty rare trait for religious authors. I don't really have beef with him as an individual, and he's definitely come a long way in evolving to have more progressive views. but as long as he's still tithing to the Mormon church, I'll continue to refuse to give him monetary support, same as I do with all Mormon authors. the claim has been made (idk if it was by him or someone else) that he's still staying to essentially try to change the church from the inside, but imo, that doesn't negate the harm caused by him giving money to them that's being used for anti-LGBTQIA+ purposes in the here and now. at the very least, he could try to off-set that impact by donating to charities that help the queer community, but I've never heard of him doing so. as such, i cannot in good conscience support him so long as he's still paying tithes to the Mormon church. :/
My "petty reasons" (And no, I'm not avocatong for any of these books to be banned due to my reasons. All books deserve to exist.):
Colleen Hoover? I won't fully pick up her books because how she romantizes DV and DA. Also, I can't stand her writing every time I read one sentence and the way she writes First person is abismal.
Sarah J Mass? Writing is annoying from the few sentences I've read, the way the relationships are handled from the reviews are absolutely something I hate. Also don't like how she also writes first person. (Yes, I'm very particular in my first persons as you'll notice. It has to feel like Night by Elie Wesel or the personality is very well expressed like Dreseden Files, The Lady Trent Series, Paranesi, Or Beastly and Bookish.)
Fourth Wing. I don't do just vibes, and there's other ligitamite issues I have with it that I won't go into here because super long. And Also... poorly written First person.
Twilight. It was the first book that grated on my annoyence of first person as it was also my first experience *with* first person at the time. But also... I did not apperciate how the relationship was protrayed and other things. (I watched the movies to support my friends but I was very much tired of how things were handled even when they did the comparison with the books) I tried Host, and while it's *slightly* better with the first person... I still wasn't connecting well with any of the charaters.
Game of Thrones and anything by GRRM. Lack of actual research of what he 'wants to realistically" protray. Plausable in his world? Maybe. Realistic like he says it was? no. (He did the Dorthaki *dirty* with what he was referencing since I'm now doing the research for the Mongolians and other nomadic tribes, using very harmful sterotypes.), I also have problems with how he protrays women and trauma. Being a survivor of SA myself, it really got under my skin with how things were handled. Also, I was hoping to at least get the thrill of horror since everyone kept on an on with how he does it in these books... but the opening scene was so boring to me and I never continued on with the books, and every time I've tried at different part, I just hated the books more. The first person wasn't horriable but I still wasn't wowed by it.
Anything else by Erika Johansen. Kingdom of Sweets pissed me off so badly. First person was decent actually. I had high hopes because of that and was quickly sorely disappointed with the *lack of research* she did on the retelling she was doing. I was actually genuinely intrested in the Horror take of the Nutcracker! The horror wasn't well done, She Queer coded a villain (Drosselmeyer), Her self insert of her 15 year old self was annoying as all hell, Slut shaming, Only put the setting in Russia because of the ballet, not doing the research why the Nutcracker was actually important in *German* tradition on chrismas, Ignored the fact that all the names were German... And didn't bother reading the origonal because apparently she thinks the Litaiture Genre is boring which she said in an interview. (I still gave this book a try in a buddy read because I was *HOPING* she did the horror part correctly but no....). I'm not reading any other books she written because of the atrocious handling of this retelling.
Thanks for watching and your thoughtful reply :) All of these seem like valid reasons to me!
Is it petty to recommend a story, but tell people to pirate it online for free? Rurouni Kenshin is a great a story, but the mangaka is a horrible human being. Read the story and don’t support the creator.
Lmaoooo i may or may not have pirated Verity bc I needed to confirm it was dumb AF, but I refuse to give her $$
@@litwithleigh I’ve never read Colleen Hoover, but lately I’ve been reading dark romances. I don’t mind reading stories that are dark as long as there’s a point. From what I’ve heard about Colleen work is that there’s shock with very little weight.
Rurouni Kenshin mangaka had cp. I don’t want to give my money to him. In any way.
The thing about fanfiction is that it's generally really beneficial to the authors in my opinion. Imagine the Harry Potter series, for example. Do you truly believe it would be as alive and popular if there weren't dedicated people, keeping it alive, fixing problems with the original text, creating content unaffiliated with the horrid wench who wrote it, bridging the gaps between media releases and overall pouring their heart and soul into a community around the original works? Because I certainly don't think so. Fandom and fanfiction keep your works relevant and alive - not to mention that it's a huge compliment to you that you could inspire others to create. You don't have to engage with it yourself. I understand not wanting to be influenced by your readers' ideas too much and I get that seeing certain interpretations of the characters that inevitably carry a part of you within themselves can be weird. But trampling all over your supporters and their ideas is just disrespectful And shooting yourself in the foot. But maybe I just think that because I'm involved in the scene.
Why can't we know who this super trendy popular non fiction author is 😳
I need to know!!!!
I need his messy ass exposed.
Ahh authors, like J Rose, going after reviewers dont deserve anyones time imo. I also wont read her
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Most petty - real people on newly published covers, esp. when it's either the most generic face or it looks like AI. Then - how many pages are in a book. Over 400 for a romance/mystery gives me a pause to reconsider, over 500 legit reading through reviews; for fantasy it's 500 and 600; too many books feel fillery or in a need of a better editor.
Ok the cover thing is valid like what're you doing with this in 2024 lol? Look at the cover for What Happened to Nina by Dervla McTiernan? Immediate jail.
Page number is valid too. A police procedural cannot be 400+ pgs or then I know it's gonna be over complicated or weighed down by details. I've read 500+ pg romances and idk what came over me 😂
I can't believe I'm late to the game.
Never late!!
I refused to read the first book by Ali Hazelwood when it came out because she published her Reylo fanfiction and I was still very salty about what JJAbrams and Ryan Johnson did to the sequel trilogy.
I still refuse to read Hazelwood because i don't want to read smut.
Unfortunately I don't know what Reylo is but if you hate smut, she is the worst 😭 her spicy scenes are always borderline criminal
@@litwithleighKylo Ren and Rey from Star Wars.
I refused to read Catcher in the Rye when I was in high school.
I was not about to read about some White boy who got kicked out of multiple high schools while I was getting straight A's in mathematics.
Screw you Liberal Arts Majors! Read the Two Cultures essay by C P Snow. 😂
*hides my two arts degrees* 😭🤣
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I don't have any degrees. Dropped out of Electrical Engineering. Fixed computers for IBM.
What if that person reads Anna Karenina BUT YOU LIKE DIFFERENT STUFF OR THE THING HE SAYS, LIKE WHAT IF HE IS TOTALLY WRONG?!?! I have the feeling that he's so annoying that he would skip the most important and deep stuff from the book and he prob he would just read it just to feel smart idk
Did he read it or did he read the sparks notes 🤔🤭
I'm never sure if my reason for not reason anymore of Margret Atwood is petty or not. I read Cat's Eye and decided never to read her again because she was to good at her job. I guess it seems it should be petty because I am throwing away a good author because she got in my head about a plane hijacking. However I have a lot of other books that need my attention and I give her her props for being good.
LMAOOO omg. Do you mean she scared you to the point where you don't want to fly?
@@litwithleigh It was because there were some stories in my family that it made me think of and how she wrote just made the real stories feel more and more real. It was just a bridge to far. I haven't flown since I read it actually, and i admit, I wonder if it wouldn't be in my brain somewhere in the back of my head.
Omg!! Ok definitely never reading this haha
Sorry, were you previously girl with a pink ski mask on GR?
Yessss that's me! I'm still on there, I just switched my name to Lit with Leigh
AND *I* FEEL GUILTY FOR NOT READING/DNFING BOOKS BC THEY TRIGGERED ME OR BC THEY ARE TRANSPHOBIC (etc)?!?!?!?!?
Lmaooo I'll dnf over a bad vibe that I created in my head 😂 don't feel guilty!!!
Is my reason for not reading Russian books because Russia inwaded us petty? 😂
I think you're good 😂
I won't read a certain author because he made public comments defending his friend that was arrested for looking at kid p0rn. 🤢 Even the friend said it was a mistake and should have never done it.
DROP HIS NAME PLS AND THANK YOU BC WTAF????
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I don’t think I’ve ever not read a book for truly petty reasons, but others may disagree. In almost every case I can think of where I refuse to read a book, it’s because I can tell it’s going to bash me over the head with p0litics. For example, I refuse to read any other Ali Hazelwood books because I found the constant feminism in Love, Theoretically to be absolutely insufferable. Maybe some would find that petty, but I find authors who unsubtly barrage me with their opinions like that to be more petty. I recently read Into The Drowning Deep and I’m not sure I want to read anything else by that author for a similar reason. That story would have been sooo much better if it weren’t for the constant finger waggling and signaling about cl!mate change and d!sability, IMO. I don’t mind authors expressing their opinions through their writing, and I even think that’s part of the point of fiction. But there should be a subtle art to it, IMO. When it doesn’t even attempt to be subtle about it, it’s a huge turn off to me.
Also, my Neopets WERE my friends. That took me back... The real question is what forum was Dan Brown in? I was mostly in Fan Clubs back in the day and I never saw him. Sounds like a GC troll. Pretty sure I read The Davinci Code while I was still playing Neopets, probably around 15-16, so it might not have necessarily been an adult. Some of us started reading books like that too early in life… When I was on Neopets as a young teen, I pretended to be Hannibal Lecter, so… 🤣
LMAO ok I have to know ... Why Hannibal ?? I was on neopets when I was like 10 so definitely no da Vinci code for me. I kept getting banned bc randoms tried to groom me in the private messages.
Totally understand about the politics. Don't read Holly by Stephen King lol. Loreth Anne White's The Maids Diary is also pretty political. I think the issue is when the characters have no personality beyond their political ideologies. When the author is virtue signalling with the characters' political beliefs, I'm over it.