- memoirs (unless they are of really spectacular achievements - and never 20-somethings recounting their childhoods)
- "true" paranormal revelations
- serialized Star Trek novels
- the Left Behind books
- "Christian" series romance
- Danielle Steel
- inspirational stories
- series that are hurriedly gotten-up imitations of successful ones
- novelizations of movies that are based on books
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
But, to be open-minded, there are books I tend to avoid that maybe I need to go out on a limb on ...
- books without quotation marks around speech (I'm looking at you, Cormac McCarthy)
- novels about some famous dude's wife or some girl in a painting
- Jack Kerouac
- epic multi-generational tales
- biography
- the secret importance of {some ordinary object} in civilization
3 comments:
I also don't read novels without quotation marks, except for Cormac McCarthy, and I don't read books in the present tense (except American Psycho, which I read last weekend) or in second person. I try to avoid novels about professors struggling with writer's block who have affairs with their students or middle-aged women who are trying to discover themselves by sleeping around. And of course, the Da Vinci Code.
I'm OK with present tense and second person, but I definitely avoid writers's block/affairy professorial novels if I can. And the Da Vinci code.
I've sometimes thought about making people read "Left Behind" just so they could see the spectacular wrongness, but in the end I couldn't manage that level of cruelty.
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