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Q: What is your biggest pet peeve when it comesto books? Maybe you don’t like love triangles or thin plots? Tellus about it!
I didn’t really thinkabout it… It can always have something like that. Firstable, Ithink it would be the grammatical mistakes. It’s always so difficultto read a book like this and at the end it’s not even a pleasure todo it. It’s a pity sometimes because the book can be amazing but themistakes change everything. With surprise, the love triangles don’tbother me at all, but it’s not the same thing for thin plots. Indeed,I’ve read some books where for example the plot is behind the clicheromance. It’s so not for me, Ireally need to have a story constructed with interested characters. Ithink I’m always more interested in this case but otherwise I don’treally want to read the other books. After that I could add too thebooks which really look like other novels. I’ve read some bookspretty much alike, so there is no surprise and finally it becomesboring to read them. I’m sure there are a lot of other things, but Idon’t remember them for now.
Melliane
Euh, I don’t like grammatical mistakes either! They bother me a lot during the read.
Love triangles, however, don’t bother me because they are very common in the kind of books I’ve read and I’m used to read stories which are similar. But in this case I give a particular importance to the characters. Given the fact that love triangles are very common, I think it’s necessary to compensate this lack of originality by characters well worked, that is to say with a personality well developed and the feelings well described. So they must be touching, otherwise we fall into the cliché, the “déjà vu” and it gets boring! I also attach great importance to the heroine: generally I like a book when I like her. A book has little chances to please me if the heroine is annoying. I don’t like annoying heroines at all! Lol
Euh, I don’t like grammatical mistakes either! They bother me a lot during the read.
Love triangles, however, don’t bother me because they are very common in the kind of books I’ve read and I’m used to read stories which are similar. But in this case I give a particular importance to the characters. Given the fact that love triangles are very common, I think it’s necessary to compensate this lack of originality by characters well worked, that is to say with a personality well developed and the feelings well described. So they must be touching, otherwise we fall into the cliché, the “déjà vu” and it gets boring! I also attach great importance to the heroine: generally I like a book when I like her. A book has little chances to please me if the heroine is annoying. I don’t like annoying heroines at all! Lol
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Yes, the mistakes are one of the worst things, if there are too many I just close the book, because I hate having to work through it.
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haha! I just wrote a blog post about love triangles…
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I agree, authors need to find a way to make their book stand apart from others. It is one thing to tip your hat to the authors in the genre that paved the road. For example, the Anita Blake series was one of the early urban fantasy books; however, everyone copying her campy sex scenes is overkill. But . . . Ha-ha, that might turn into a rant if I keep going ^_~
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Hi Melliane! Hopping through. I don’t mind cliche’d romance if the plot and characters are really good. it’s possible to do that well.
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I hate grammar mistakes too. Always spot them.
I agree with you mistakes especially obvious ones can ruin a book. =]
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grammatical and spelling errors seems to be quite a popular pet peeve.
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It doesn’t bother me too much having mistakes with spelling and grammer. I can overlook this normally. I agree with the cliched romance it can get so boring and repetative.
Grammatical mistakes and spelling mistakes top my list of pet peeves 🙂
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Grammatical mistakes and spelling mistakes top my list of pet peeves 🙂
New follower–have a great weekend!
Grammatical mistakes and spelling mistakes top my list of pet peeves 🙂
New follower–have a great weekend!
Grammatical mistakes and spelling mistakes top my list of pet peeves 🙂
New follower–have a great weekend!
Grammatical mistakes and spelling mistakes top my list of pet peeves 🙂
New follower–have a great weekend!
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@ Claire : I don’t see them in English but in French I’ve read some books where it wasn’t so good. Even with mistakes about the name. So difficult to understand after that.
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My biggest pet peeve is also errors in the finished book. If an author can’t take the time to properly proof read their novel why should I take the time to read it.
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I can’t believe I forgot grammar, because that is certainly a pet peeve of mine as well.
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The way I write, I can’t say grammatical errors… LOL but I would have to say a book that lacks direction. Bugs me more than anything. Oh and cliffies… I hate those too.
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*fist bump w/both of you* I completely agree with the fact that a lot of grammatical and spelling errors with kill the buzz of a story like nobody’s business.
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Grammatical errors are the worst!
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Annoying characters are the hardest to read about! So true!
And grammatical mistakes are such a turn-off!
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I don’t mind grammatical mistakes in an Advanced Reader Copy, but I do mind it in a final copy. Great points. It can take away from a story. This is why I don’t review self-pub a lot. Great answers. Come visit me ladies. Love your header. So very nice.
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Grammatical mistakes are often very distracting.
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I completely agree with you about grammar…one of the reasons I put off reading the Twilight Saga and then ended up listening to it as an audiobook (http://www.thebookaddictnet.blogspot.com/2011/11/series-in-review-twilight-saga-by.html)
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Thanks for stopping by and yes grammatical mistakes can be rather annoying.
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I totally agree about the thin plots and bad grammar! That bothers me as well.
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I have always seen one or two mistakes in books, but never a lot… Well, no, I take that back. I have read some small pub and indie books that have some grammatical issues.
Love triangles I don’t mind at all, if they are done well. I never could figure out why the one that is not it doesn’t move on. It seems like a usual guy thing to do, and why is the love-tri always two dudes and one girl? Why not the other way around?
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Grammatical mistakes don’t bother me too much. I don’t see them that often. But when I do, I feel special for catching them! Call me weird I guess! 🙂 Thanks for visiting my blog!
Errors are definitely near the top of my list. When a book is filled with them I find it difficult to focus on the story and often give up trying to read it.
Agreed! Grammatical mistakes are definitely at the top of my list when it comes to pet peeves! Great post! Thank you for stopping by!