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What would make you DNF a book?
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Aug 21, 2023 08:57AM
I’ve dnfed a book cuz the male character was too dry and by that I mean all he did was grunt and another one because it was enemies to lovers but became lover 30% in.
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If the book is boring. I try getting to the 50% mark before I dnf but if it’s too insufferable I’ll dnf earlier. I hate feeling like I’m forcing myself to read. It gives me school flashbacks
If the book is too slow or the plot is too complicated. Also, if the writing is bad. I dnf'ed A Swiftly Tilting Planet for all those reasons. NEVER READ THAT BOOK!
I've been trying to be better at not forcing myself to finish books if I am not enjoying them! some books I DNF this year:**if the writing is really bland/plot is too slow (the legal battle in the second half of Radium Girls, A Psalm for the wild built)
**if the main character traits/plot is too conservative (woman needs a husband/baby to be happy, has no other personality/goals like "Before the Coffee Gets Cold")
**if a relationship in a book is too unhealthy ("It Ends With Us" was not for me)
**if the writing is too YA (love YA books but sometimes if feels like reading a picture book in terms of simplistic writing/ repetitiveness)
When I'm halfway through the book and still nothing has really happened or i notice that it took me 1 week to get to 25% even i had much time. Or when i haven’t checked the tropes but still want to give it a try and then i notice that i don’t like it because of the trope and maybe other things too. Sometimes the books are not worth to continue reading them because I think they are not interesting enough and i don’t want to kinda waste time yk
not wanting to pick it up, feeling tired at the mere thought of having to read it
i hate the characters or am triggered
when it becomes just smut, I kinda tune out... spice is good, but that's a garnish, not the whole damn meal
If I get up to chapter 7 and still feel bored then yeah. I DNF it.
when i love the trope they're using but its done poorly, or when it's trying so hard to grab my attention but is still failing
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When I read the first book of a series and I loved it, but if there’s a unsolved love triangle or miscommunication in the rest of the series I dnf immediately
my toxic trait is being physically unable to dnf a book BUT when it starts to feel like a chore to pick it up or i’m so bored with it that i’d rather do literally anything else
'do/did not finish'
Where the story start really really slow, or usually any book that is non fiction
evelyn wrote: "'do/did not finish'"Thx!
Atrociously bad grammar/spelling, boredom and just not vibing with me or my mood but that doesn’t mean I won’t try the it again at a later date. At least for the last reason . Not the first two reasons.
I dnf when I am just not enjoying or there is something I find really stupid with the plot.
I generally go off vibes. If I really can’t get into it, then I don’t bother with it. Life is too short to read books that you don’t enjoy!!
I struggle to ever leave a book unfinished, so I usually push through even if I find the plot boring, or bad, or if I find the characters to be insufferable… But I DNF if I find something triggering in the book that I wasn’t prepared for going in. For example anything that would require a trigger warning, but it’s not mentioned and I kind of sit there reading and it being just so uncomfortable..
when its so boring that I can’t even concentrate anymore
To me i think it's when if theres multiple POVs and it starts to morph into a mess and i dont understand anything. Another thing is that if the chapters are too long and the book has a tiny font. Thats why i never finished Harry Potter
If the book doesnt have ma after 30-50 pages I'm done. That doesnt mean that it has to have action already but good books have you hooked within 5 pages, sometimes its 20 but after that, if its boring I'll stop
I would dnf a book if i can't get into it in the first 100 pages, if the world building is too dense for my small brain. I'm also a big mood reader, so i might not finish the book immediately unless I really want to know what happens before I move on.
if it's boring and is making me get into a reading slump
bad writing mostly, but honestly i dnf anything that i dont think is worth reading
for me, it could be the littlest thing like a mood switch, sometimes I just get bored, other times it could be me being petty af and just refusing to pick a book up after a stupid fight or a huge plot hole that makes me want to roll up in it and die, lol
When the characters do something unspeakable. Like in one book (y’all prolly know this one) it’s the first chapter and the guy decides to slam the girl against the wall, choke her and threaten her. Then a couple chapters later she records H’s friend assaulting her friend, gets caught recording by H, H tries to protect his friend by taking her phone from her, which she then puts in her bra, and THEN H ripped her shirt open, got the phone and finger r*ped her. All outside of the HIGH SCHOOL. Like that was not a bully romance it was … jail. Another one is me reading a mafia book and I’m expecting the usual mafia type book.. yk but then the guy has a casual conversation with his friend about what girls they’re gonna kidnap and sell/force into sex work next 😂😂…?????? Like wtf. I didn’t sign up for THAT TYPA MAFIA. Instantly dnfed.
k wrote: "When the characters do something unspeakable. Like in one book (y’all prolly know this one) it’s the first chapter and the guy decides to slam the girl against the wall, choke her and threaten her...."BRO WTF BOOK IS THE FIRST ONE THATS SCARY OMFG
when the book is boring most of the time it's really hard for me to dnf a book
multiple POVs that are too confusingor too excessively/unrelated details
The Seven and a Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle: MC thought and observed his surroundings wayyy too much and 1/3 into the book we weren’t getting answers for the constantly stacking questions. not paced fast enough.
Bad writing, irritating characters, boring plot, too much descriptive writing
Poor writing for sure... even if the characters/plot is boring, beautiful prose can cover up a lot!Also, I won't read a romance book with characters that have the same name as a family member/close friend.
poor writing, racial stereotypes, pick me leads, guys that are rapey, teacher x student
If it's like boring and i have no motivation to read it and when i do i find myself skimming over a lot of it
1. Bad writing style2. Cringey smut
3. Bad plot
4. Long chapters ( especially when it adds nothing to the plot)
