Does anything make you stop reading a book?

Was reading a memoir and the author pretty much said "if they were my children I would have beaten them for being so rude", and I stopped reading the book. How about you?

Farley Mowat was a nature writer, and one of his books is A Whale for the Killing. The situation he covers in the book -- the plight of a whale trapped in a small cove, being shot at by satanically evil people (and their young-uns) got me so incensed that I had to stop reading the book. I stopped at page 104 -- I still have the paperback, and my bookmark is in it -- and I doubt if I'll ever return to it. This was maybe 15 years ago. I wanted to time travel back to the event he reported on and do serious damage to the people he described. Altogether a damaging experience in reading.

Also the Bible, because when I got as far as Judges, I just couldn't dredge up the interest to keep reading. I really should read the whole book, though -- I've already read all the violent and smutty stuff.

I'm usually reading too many books at the same time, so it's hard to say why I might stop reading one. It's usually because I'm getting bored or the information is a bit over my head, confusing or contradictory. I've been reading a book about slang for at least a year, so sometimes when I want to read something light, I'll go back to that one. If I really like a book, I read it two or three times. I only read nonfiction, so I"m certainly not going to try to read the Bible. I was forced to read it as a child when I still read a lot of fiction.

GenesisNemesis said:

Was reading a memoir and the author pretty much said "if they were my children I would have beaten them for being so rude", and I stopped reading the book. How about you?

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I enjoy a good silly romance novel when I'm not at work, but I don't like stories that valorize or try to recontextualize sexual assault, so I stop reading if things seem to be headed that way.

I started book one of I believe it is nine by Iain Somebody. So a third of the way into book one we come to an island inhabited by people called Eaters. While this particular chapter was not what I expected it still had me scratching my head thinking, if this was one of the author's freshest ideas this early in the series, I am not hopeful for the rest of it.