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Is there something that would happen in a Dresden book that will make you quit?

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Cats_are_evil:
Let me give you some back ground to this question. I have a very eclectic taste in books. In no particular order my top five is Watership down, K is for killer, Pride and prejudice, 1984 and one for the money. For the longest time Butcher and Evanovich were my top authors. Until her last book. I was so mad at her choice of husband ( straight married white guy that likes rom coms here ) that I may never read another of her books EVER AGAIN. Which got me to thinking. What would have to happen for mus to not read another Butcher book? Thoughts?

Mira:

   Hey we share a couple of favorites, "Pride and Prejudice" and "1984" so you are not alone in that.  As an adult I got hooked on the "Harry Potter" series, in fact there were aspects of "The Prisoner of Azkaban" that helped me to cope with the suicide of my son.  Having said that after Harry P. hooked up with Ginny W. I couldn't handle the series anymore at all, and have not revisited it since.

Tinfoil hat:
At this point for me its unlikely that i would drop it due to suck cost fallacy. I finished Smallville for crying out loud. Unless the writing gets so bad like cw flash later seasons bad then im out but fingers crossed it doesn't get to that point.

Regenbogen:
I can't imagine the Dresden Files getting that bad except if Jim started hiring a bad ghost writer or loose interest in finishing and just sloppily published boring books from now on, just because his contract said that he needed to write at least 3 books more for example.

I finished the third FitzChivalry trilogy despite of that it felt like the author lost interest. The first one felt promising and I was disappointed at the last two. But I still finished them.


If I don't like a book, I just stop reading. I don't like books that are boring in my opinion, when I can't somehow relate to the characters, when the storyline doesn't interest me, when there are too many inconsistencies, when the characters act like arseholes (again in my opinion), when there is no character development.

If I don't like the characters but the story is good and intersting I read on.
If the story is boring but it has good and interesting characters, I read on.

Sometimes (but very rarely) I don't like the writing style. Either because of word choice or sentence structure, because the author looses themself in some topic in unnecessary detail I am not very interested in, or because the author constantly uses confusing descriptions that prevent me from understanding what they mean.

The latter happened to me twice. I had to stop reading because even after being halfway through the book, I had just a very vague idea about what was even happening. And even this felt just very weird and illogical to me.


So, if Jim suddenly started to write in a confusing way so that I could no longer understand what he is writing about, I think this would cause me to stop reading.

Mira:

  I will finish the book, even if I don't like it, however if it is part of a series?  I won't go any further.



 There are a lot of things I haven't been thrilled about with the series since Changes, but so far I haven't been alienated to the point where I would stop reading it.

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