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⌈ Secret Post #2649 ⌋

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[AlternateHistory.com : Malê Rising]

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[Amelie]

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11. [SPOILERS for Superior Spider-Man]

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12. [SPOILERS for Believe]

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13. [WARNING for rape]

[Orwell]

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[Colditz]

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15. [WARNING for child molestation]

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Have you ever given up on (or nearly given up on) a book or piece of media not because it was bad but because of a character (or characters) you hated or found disturbing?

I didn't get very far into Lord Foul's Bane before bailing because of the main character. So you're whiny and annoying and now you've just gone and raped somebody? Fuck you.

It took me forever to get through Titus Groan and nearly gave up several times because of how frustrating I found most of the characters. They were so bound to tradition that they flat out didn't know how to handle new circumstances and let bad things happen because they simply chose not to take action to stop them. I realize that was the point - that tradition was everything to those people - but it still made it really hard to read. I wanted to punch everybody in the face.

I gave up on Supernatural because Dean and Sam were annoying me. I wanted to like it but I just couldn't listen to them any more.

I actually have a weakness for characters who are supposed to be unlikeable, especially protagonists, but if I'm supposed to like them and they're irritating then I'm not going to bother with the show or book or whatever.

I loved Mirror of Her Dreams and A Man Rides Through, so after I finished them, I tried to read the Thomas Covenant series and I couldn't because I hated him so much.

There have been a few books/shows/whatever like that for me. Off of the top of my head is A Song of Ice and Fire. I pretty much hated everyone and couldn't make it through the first book. (I know others like it, so it is probably just a me thing, but I couldn't like anyone.)

I almost gave up on Sharp Objects because of the main character.

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I wanted to stop when she went off on this tangent to another character about how women who are raped deserve it, but she was gangraped herself as a teenager and had a really fucked up childhood with a horribly abusive mother so it's obvious that that affects her views and it didn't come out of nowhere, but I disliked it.

The book overall was incredibly disturbing though and I decided after reading it (I'd already read the other two) that I will definitely skip any future Gillian Flynn books. I usually like disturbing stuff but her books are just...I don't even know the right word.

I eventually dumped Six Feet Under because even David wasn't worth it if getting him meant I had to put up with the rest of the characters.

I wish I had, too. When I got to the end of the series, I felt horrified that I'd spent so much time watching something where most of the characters were assholes (in some cases, totally pretentious assholes).

I made it all the way through The Magicians by Lev Grossman but gave up very shortly into the second book because I couldn't stand the main character.

I tried to read His Dark Materials a while back, but I didn't get very far because I just couldn't like the main character at all. I disliked her a bit, but she was just so detached, like she was just a vessel for the readers to explore the canon world and I couldn't immerse myself in it. I can put up with a bad world with good characters, but I need to get into somebody's head to enjoy the story.

Oh man, Thomas Covenant. I made it all the way through the first trilogy and gave up less than halfway through the first book of the second trilogy in sheer hatred. What a despicable character.

For the record, Covenant suffered for that later on. Oh god, did he suffer. And not in the 'shunned by the ignorant due to his unfortunate condition' way he whined so much about at the beginning of the book.

I was so excited about Sleeping with the Fishes by Mary Janice Davidson, but the main character pissed me off within the first couple of chapters.

She walks into her parents' house without knocking, finds her folks having sex in the living room, rips her dad away from her mom and throws him across the room with her known super-human strength, calling him names. This is not the act of a rational human being, and she doesn't get any less childish and selfish through the rest of the book.

I've never been so glad to release a book back into the wild.

Fucking 'Lord Foul's Bane'. Homg, all those books. I think i read two and a half before i just could not *stand* him anymore. Arrgh.

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