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gooenthusiast · 2 days ago

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This is probably also why so many booktok/bookstagram-famous books are (imo as an avid „actual“ reader) shitty? As in ‚books written by 13 year olds on Wattpad make more sense and are written better‘-shitty.

I‘m not going bash people for liking to read or fantasise about toxic relationships, you do you. I don‘t like it, so I don‘t read it.

But I have no idea how people could stick around for an entire book of objectively bad & inconsistent writing and like it, without doing this parapgraph skipping/ only reading dialogue thing (aka not actually reading).

Do they know that reading is not mandatory? Nobody is forcing them to read?

#The horrifying alternative would be that people unironically love reading sentences like „we laughed at our son‘s big balls“#and being perfectly fine with an inconsistent ‚chonic illnes‘ (that the author also has) only popping up when it makes the mc interesting #but not when it would actually negatively affect her #Suspension of disbelif is one thing.#but for the entire premise of a book?#It also feels like most of the MCs in these books are flatter than week-old soda & have to be Very Special Princesses not by their own right #but because She‘s The Universe‘s Favourite Princess. Usually there is boting special about her skillset or ambition.#she‘s just born bettter than everyone else.#(eg getting 2 fated dragon instead of 1 like a normie‚ being turned into a fae even if that doesn‘t make sense)#And while I‘m usually against gatekeeping/ calling people ‚poser‘#this seems like a good time to gatekeep and call people poser.#especially when they‘re treating bookishness like an aestetic.

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