What are some of /lit/'s pet peeves about books? A big

> seeing people's book collections and all they own is YA fiction hardbacks
> a torn page in the book, sometimes from holding the page too firmly
> "unputdownable" as a quote on the cover makes me put the book down
> when the printing on the page hasn't been done properly so half of the word is missing and you struggle to make out what it's meant to say
> supermarket book collections: nothing but trashy romance novels, YouTuber books, James Patterson and the original novel to a film or tv programme

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>dust jackets

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>>9550917
>directly addressing the reader

>>9550917
>tiny font

>>9550917

Dedications and thanks at the beginning that aren't real. I get i if it's nonfiction and they're thanking collaborators and institutions that allowed them to do their work. But "To my beloved wife, [x]" triggers me.

>>9550930
James Patterson seems to release a new book each week with another author. What's that all about? Dude must be raking it in.

>>9550918
It's shit like this that makes me hate social media.

Also when you're mid-way in conversation with someone and the other person checks their phone for texts or notifications on facebook. When did that become socially acceptable? Always felt rude to me to do that in a conversation with someone else.

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>>9550939
>Writer here.
DROPPED

>>9551046

i dont know, its certainly retarded society socially. social media fags are just carrying ariund safety blankets and sucking their thumbs, a cellphone in hand all the time is little more than Linus carrying ariund his blanket. my favorite are those adults 40+ who engage with phones and s.m. this way, its pathetic. life is not happening on your phone.

>>9550980
He comes up with the basic idea and then somebody else writes it if I remember correctly.

>>9551106
If that's true it's a bit shitty his name gets top-billing for that.
>>9551093
Agreed. If you were so switched on socially, you wouldn't rely on social media while already outside and socialising. Social media really should be for when you're not engaged with somebody else socially. It really does make my piss boil, anon.

When the book doesn't come with the free toy.

>>9550939
>Every Dostoevsky novel.

>>9550930
>a torn page in the book, sometimes from holding the page too firmly

I was carrying a couple of books in my bag when a gypsy woman stole it. The cops tracked her down and returned most of my things, the book included. Except she had torn a single page from the end notes, crumpled it, and put it back.

Now my autism can't get past that and l'll probably donate it to the library or something.

>>9551348
I would do the same thing and just buy a new copy of the book. Why the hell would anyone tear a single page out and then return it? Some people are crazy.

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>>9551360
Yeah, the only thing holding me back is the fact that l'm a third-world Europoor. I'd rather spend that money on another book, but l'm conflicted about what to do with this one.

Damn gypsy, why would you do this?

>>9550918
Will society ever grow out of doing this

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> deckled pages

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> italics
> using exclamation points
> using anything more than "said"
> expository dialogue
> buying pre-owned books online to later find out it's an old copy from a school library with laminated covers and scribbled notes on each page

>Reviewer is just "Amazon.com"
>Small circular sticker with "YOUR FAVOURITE BOOKTUBER" giving it their seal of approval
>Five Reddit logos indicating how popular the book is on Reddit

>>9551532

kids born post2000 have an increased skepticism toward s.m. because they consider our generation lame and stupid because of it

>>9551606
which book is an example of the 2nd and 3rd points?

Do all dogs go to heaven or just the good boys?

>>9551567
Why is that a thing again?

>>9550936
This
FUCK dust jackets
Singlehandedly turned me off hardcovers

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i fucking HATE how vintage books all say:
>VINTAGE SURNAME
rather than the author's full name
for some reason it tickles my autism something awful

>>9551595
Italics?

>>9550917
I know this is off-topic but man the pope is rustling my jimmies.

>>9551046
>things have changed and I don't like it!

>>9551079
People who say "dropped"

>>9552255
Straight edges = paper cuts

Really hate books with switching narrator between chapters, takes me out of my comfort zone every time

>>9550917
First person
'Voicey' writing
Present tense
Pop culture references

::deletes epub::

>>9553454
You're stupid.

>>9553433
>third-rate snark
DISCARDED

>>9551157
Wouldn't get sold without his name in big type

>>9553344
You're either a troll or someone who checks their phone mid-conversation yourself.

>>9553589
Sorry what was that? Hold on.

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>Book starts with a quote from a better book

>>9550939
I found it charming when melville does it

>>9553317
There this catholic girl in high school who would suck my dick from time to time, anyway her and her mother used to compose angry letters to the pope (the last one).
She took off to become a nun after high school, god I miss her.

>>9553600

kek

>>9551595
>tfw i love getting laminated library books

Straight male authors

>>9553438
Maybe if you're a fat retard who doesn't know how to use a book

>>9553317
Why? I'm not a catholic or anything but the new pope seems like an a-ok lad.

>>9553344
This anon is so socially retarded that he doesn't realise how rude it is during a conversation to flick up his phone to see if he has any notifications. Do you not see an irony in trying so hard to keep up-to-date with social interactions online that you fail to connect with people socially IRL?

>>9553600
happens too often, but the silver lining is that if that book is really shit i'll drop it and pick up the book it was quoting instead

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> a specific arrangement of three letter acronyms filtering to "desu" and "senpai"

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>>9552305
What books me more is that usually Vintage book covers look like crap, and I don't understand why they have such a focus on red. Red spines, red is central in their book covers, etc. The only Vintage book covers I really like are the Mishima ones and the LGBTQIA+ rockets for Gravity's Rainbow.

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goodreads is a motherfucker

>>9550918
This.

>>9550917
same

> lending a book to a friend
> never see the book again
> they never read it

One of life's biggest mysteries is where the fuck did that book go?

>>9550948
This is just autistic

>>9555715
>read fairy tales
>get recommended children's book

It's like pottery

>>9553635
So Kafkaesque anon

>>9555167
You forgot white

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>>9555715

>>9551652
theyre good dogs, anon

>>9550917
The pope has no right to decide who goes into heaven.

>>9555800
>nails 95 theocrats to a church door in a rage

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>>9555800
why wouldn't you want the goodest of boys to be in heaven to have a little play with when you or they died???

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>>9555822
Maybe dogs do go to heaven, I'm just saying the pope doesn't know any better than anybody else.

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>>9555838
can't blame the pope for being optimistic though

>>9555751
Not Kafkaesque in the least

You guys are aware that the pope is the voice of God on earth right?

>>9556011
You are aware that that is unnecessary, right?
We don't need a moderator between God and mankind since God wants to have a personal relationship with us.

>>9555541
It's really just an issue for Catholics. He's very progressive, saying shit like gays can go to heaven and changing a lot of the more rigid traditions of the church for something lighter on the soul. It's like the leggings of Catholicism.