What are some red flags, pitfalls, or immediate indicators that

Written by a white male.

>>9846212
lel triggered xd

>>9846210
wrote by a women or a nonwhite!

Written by an American, and I'm completely serious

Red flag: female author

Immediate indicators: asshole narrative voice, unfunny jokes, cliches

Pitfalls: bogging the reader down with description from page 1, uncreative allusions to other popular narratives

>>9846222
That's awfully specific.

>>9846210

If it was written, you just know it'll suck

It's reccomended by /lit/

>>9846210
the first sentence isn't syntactically original. Find me a first sentence to a story/book that is really good that doesn't kick you in the nuts.

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Pushing agendas and and explicitly advocating for belief systems/religions. If I catch even a whiff of that shit I'm outie

>>9846235

Call me Ishmael

>>9846210
its about a writer

>>9846248
perfect first sentence. not sure what you mean

>>9846262

>Narrator introduces himself

Wow, how stylish, what a work of genius!

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>>9846239
>Implying propaganda can't produce good material

>>9846210
>New York Times Best Seller

>>9846267
t. brainlet

>>9846235
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

>>9846308
*In the beginning when God created the heavens and the Earth.

>>9846315
**Back to the beginning, when God was a beginner.

>>9846210
female or minority author
postmodernist work (im not eptersonfag, i used to hate postmodernism way before him)

>>9846325
***Call me God

>>9846267
Pathetic

>>9846299

Resorting to insults just tells me I've won, friend

>>9846336

I see I've stirred the Moby Dick-rider pot

>>9846315
Literally no edition does that.

>>9846210
if the character emotions are fake

>>9846381
NRSV.

>>9846210
Longer than war and peace

>>9846400
What do you mean by fake?

>>9846404
>has a length limit
It scares me how pathetic some minds can be.

>>9846402
A disgusting non-edition.

>>9846210
The author was born after 1900

>>9846412
>It scares me
Why don't you get over your fears then?

>>9846267
read the fucking whole book, you fucking piece of illiterate cunt.

>>9846210
Main character isn't human

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>Book is "written"
>Has a title
>When
>not by a dead person
>cover is too hot

>>9846210
>written by John Green
>"recommended for young adults"

there are good examples, but 99 percent of john green and young adult stories are fucking trash. Now that I'm reading it again, I even see Harry Potter's missed opportunity.