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What's the weirdest reason you've ever dropped a book, /lit/?

Years ago I dropped Pynchon entirely because I couldn't stand the little song numbers inserted into his works. Felt like nails on a chalkboard for some reason. I'm glad I picked him back up later, but they still annoy me.

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I was minding my own business in a Philadelphia area public library, researching some background material on a certain patrician American author, when one of the local entrepreneurial personal entertainment professionals disturbed my efforts. She laid herself out on the library table in front of me, advertising her services. Quite pretty she was, and I enthusiastically agreed to allay her current accounting related difficulties. So we retired to a comfy little mid-town hotel room for the remainder of the afternoon, and early evening.

I traded off my task of finishing "Vidal in Venice" to another. After reading her review here, I'm not inclined to pick it up again.

I regularly visit that same library, though.

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While juggling. Pick out a bunch at once, start each, only the very beginning, and then choose which to catch. It works well for discarding obvious red flags, but the effect I got was the opposite as I didn't believe all of them were the way they were.

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>>12662 (OP)

I dropped Huxley's Time must have a stop because i could not stand the pretension. I don't know how to put it into words, but i don't have any regrets. I barely drop books.

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>>12662 (OP)

Honestly for someone who "eschews" formal structure his work is repetitive as fuck.

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>>12662 (OP)

at times a book just feels wrong. for plenty of reasons, not necessarily the fact that i don't agree with it. i read plenty of books whose message i hated from cover to cover.

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