http://www.badmenagerie.com/5-things-that-would-make-me-throw-a-book-against-the-wall/ In Which The Menagerie Misbehaves Tue, 03 Feb 2015 03:02:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.2 http://www.badmenagerie.com/5-things-that-would-make-me-throw-a-book-against-the-wall/#comment-433 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 03:02:13 +0000 http://www.badmenagerie.com/?p=5138#comment-433 Any book which the author got bored with before finishing it. Such books generally spend 99% of their pages creating an elaborate and complex build-up that gets rapidly and easily ‘resolved’ in the last five. Often by somebody going in and simply flipping a switch, typing something on a computer keyboard, or shooting somebody.

]]> http://www.badmenagerie.com/5-things-that-would-make-me-throw-a-book-against-the-wall/#comment-425 Thu, 29 Jan 2015 18:04:15 +0000 http://www.badmenagerie.com/?p=5138#comment-425 You need to give me ideas of things to rant aboot!

]]> http://www.badmenagerie.com/5-things-that-would-make-me-throw-a-book-against-the-wall/#comment-421 Thu, 29 Jan 2015 02:05:59 +0000 http://www.badmenagerie.com/?p=5138#comment-421 OMG! Dat. Wuz. OARSOME!! Do moarer five thingses posts! But make sure they’re all ranty things. I like it when you bitch about schtuffs! S’funny. 🙂

]]> http://www.badmenagerie.com/5-things-that-would-make-me-throw-a-book-against-the-wall/#comment-417 Wed, 28 Jan 2015 05:00:14 +0000 http://www.badmenagerie.com/?p=5138#comment-417 HA! That is a great example. I would find it hard to continue reading after that.

]]> http://www.badmenagerie.com/5-things-that-would-make-me-throw-a-book-against-the-wall/#comment-416 Wed, 28 Jan 2015 04:59:11 +0000 http://www.badmenagerie.com/?p=5138#comment-416 I do read classics, although not as many as I should. Just like contemporary reads, I enjoy some and not others. Some still end up crashing into the wall. 😀

]]> http://www.badmenagerie.com/5-things-that-would-make-me-throw-a-book-against-the-wall/#comment-415 Wed, 28 Jan 2015 04:54:22 +0000 http://www.badmenagerie.com/?p=5138#comment-415 The books you describe sound like quite a few academic papers and books I had to read in college… 😀

]]> http://www.badmenagerie.com/5-things-that-would-make-me-throw-a-book-against-the-wall/#comment-414 Wed, 28 Jan 2015 04:53:04 +0000 http://www.badmenagerie.com/?p=5138#comment-414 Who am I to disagree with Dorothy Parker? *throws all my books with great force*

]]> http://www.badmenagerie.com/5-things-that-would-make-me-throw-a-book-against-the-wall/#comment-413 Wed, 28 Jan 2015 04:52:03 +0000 http://www.badmenagerie.com/?p=5138#comment-413 Oooh, good ones, InMyBook! I don’t mind racist, sexist, or homophobic characters if they make sense within the social context of the story, but when it’s obvious that they’re just messengers for the author’s bigotry, bwargh!

]]> http://www.badmenagerie.com/5-things-that-would-make-me-throw-a-book-against-the-wall/#comment-411 Tue, 27 Jan 2015 18:19:05 +0000 http://www.badmenagerie.com/?p=5138#comment-411 Or those errors are now quaintly considered things to study in those classics. Like in Crime and Punishment, where the character’s ages shift unintentionally throughout the book.

]]> http://www.badmenagerie.com/5-things-that-would-make-me-throw-a-book-against-the-wall/#comment-410 Tue, 27 Jan 2015 18:17:57 +0000 http://www.badmenagerie.com/?p=5138#comment-410 Agreeing with much of what has already been said. Also, while I’m a romance fan, I’m finding that I’m really bothered by huge flashes of sexuality at moments when they’re no friggin’ way anyone (who wants to live) is thinking about sex. For example, I recently read (and gave up on) a book where the hero and heroine, who just met, were trying to escape gunfire, but the scene was interrupted for pages at a time with paragraphs on how hot they were for each other and wanted to rip each others’ clothes off. Um…being that focused on sex when you’re dodging bullets seems like a great way to die.

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