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What line has made you stop reading a book?

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TheFloofyOne · 05/03/2019 20:28

I usually stick with a book, even if it’s not great. However, sometimes I’ll read a line that is just so ridiculous, I have to just give up.

Recently, I started in on a very cheap Kindle sale book that was bad from the first page, but the following line just made me want to throw it across the room-

“Lucy and Emma have doubled over in uncontrollable LOLs”.

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Palegreenstars · 05/03/2019 20:49

Ugh yeah that would do it for me.

Also Our House Lucy Candlish. A woman is text flirting with someone she is seeing. The book had the back and forth of the text conversation with the woman’s last response followed by...

‘There was a companionable silence, during which I grew steadily more aware of the beat of my own pulse.’

YOU CANNOT HAVE A COMPANIONABLE SILENCE OVER TEXT MESSAGE, THE OTHER PERSON COULD LITERALLY BE HAVING A CRAP WHILST NOT RESPONDING TO YOU.

Hmm I dislike caps but it gave me that much rage, I ended up finishing it but only as it was a book club choice.