Over on his blog the Critical Condition, Mark Blankenship did a post a little while back on what makes him stop reading a book . For him, the defining qualities are the smugness of the author and/or author overwriting. Yeah, I agree with both of those. But I don't put down a lot of books. I support it, because as I said, life is too short to read books you don't like, but I like most books. Or...I like them enough to finish them anyways, especially because that usually doesn't take me very long. For me, books I don't like fall into one of two categories: 1. books I don't finish (a very small category), and 2. books I dislike after I'm done with them ( a much larger, but still pretty small, category). So what would make a book so bad (to me) that I wouldn't finish it? a. Overwriting. I'm with Blankenship on this one. If you're too busy showing off your mad writing skillz (and/or you use the word "skillz" in your book) to tell the s
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