Discussion What puts you off when reading a novel?

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  1. IMM

    IMM 『X.O.X.O』

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    Some novels tend to be funny when you start reading it, but then after about 200 chapters, the comedy starts to get stale and repetitive *cough* ultimate scheming system *cough*. Now it is more like a chore to read because you know what to expect and its pretty shit. Absolute Choice kind of did it better in this area IMO.
     
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    Anything that is forced and doesnt make sense

    *currently waiting for Beta haters and Alpha lovers to show up*
     
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    Prime43 Member of the Polygamy Sect

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    the only things put me off is tragedy, NTR and yaoi, especialy NTR and yaoi. However, i always check the tags before starting a novel so it doest happen much to me
     
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    ZhaWarudo TOKI WO TOMARE!!!

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    Bad grammar, wrong common knowledge facts, not normal(shallow and unrealistic, from you dare's to wimps to harem tropes) behaviour like CN and JP, wish fullilment, using washed up virtual reality, status screens, using brackets in speech...
     
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    I was reading a new webnovel about some demon god, forgot what it was called. Suddenly, out of nowhere, there was a graphic gay scene between the main character and his subordinate. I'm not into detailed sexual scenes in light novels in general, and am not interested in reading about a main character raping his male subordinate.
     
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    IMM 『X.O.X.O』

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    Yeah I don't NTR either, kinda getting used to tragedy but not on the scale where loved ones perish
     
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    akki [Ani's C☕ffee-mate #3] [Shady Merchant]

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    I don’t like it when the writer fills the novel with stupid stuff. Like everything will be fine but the mc will do something that’s just stupid. You expect the mc to act in a certain way. But then he does something else. Ruins it for me~
     
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    Caught you unaware eh?
     
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    IMM 『X.O.X.O』

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    Many CN novels like that. Trouble magnets
     
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    if it is too illogical and or contradictory or just has no redemming value, I have quite low bar set yet a lot of novel still manage to get under that ;/

    I agree with IMM, I kinda want to drop USS, other than the MC, all character is as stupid as potato, I really hate it when the author glorified the MC, it happen often in both CN and JP novel, and when the exac opposite happen it also pissed me off, have some consistency god dammit, I really dont mind ridiculous story, just plz be consistent! this is why Invisible Dragon is still my fav novel

    edit : typo, shouldve been Invisible Dragon, not Invicible Dragon, I was going to make a joke but im an idiot who cant even type right
     
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    yeag, i thought it would be a typical isakie novel, nope, surprise.
     
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    I HATE super lucky MCs they just happen to find a legendary item right before or during the fight. Mcs that fight with people 10 levels above their cultivation level cause. And also MC that are stubborn and stupid I will go into the enemy base all by myself and rescue “my girl”. All of this usually comes into a package which makes it 10 times worse
     
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    abrupt change in MC's personality.
    MC is a reincarnated unfeeling and sadistic (genius) assassin.. no wait, he is now being made to dance on the palms of 10-12yo girls.
     
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    NTR or too much 'near to NTR'. Or a dense MC/MC who makes frustrating decisions. And discontinuity in plot/character. ^^^^Exactly this. I'd have to imagine reincarnating would have an affect on you, especially a new body etc.. growing up again with hormonal changes but if you're really the mind of a 40yr old assassin or some middle aged office worker you're going to have far more gravitas and force of personality and sense of identity than any child would.
     
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    I like the Invincible dragon too. have a few chapters piled up so I can binge read
     
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    When the author doesn't know how to end and begin to write whatever sh*** comes to his/her mind that's when it get boring, stop to make sense, you're beginning to doubt yourself at the time you has chosen to read that, all seems stupid even if you don't have to think of that, and so on
     
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    when it gets too nationalistic. when the author keeps telling us how smart the mc is every paragraph but not showing us how smart the mc is.
     
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    Reading it on qidan. The adds are killing me.

    I also loathe how pudding and other normal dishes are heavenly inventions. Female characters throw themselves at the mc's feet and it solves all economical problems.
     
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    and cigarettes can make women fall for you >.>
     
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    IMM 『X.O.X.O』

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    Yeah, I have seen that in quite a few CN novels. I tend to ignore it sometimes but then it gets ridiculous so I end up dropping it
     
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