What innocuous and unimportant detail have you read in an otherwise decent book that just immediately turned you off from it, despite it having no real effect on the plot or characters? Mine is when I was reading The Assassin’s Blade and the main character makes note (more than once) of how a black asp is dangerous because it might be “poisonous”. Girl are you planning on eating it? It’s a stupid pet peeve I know and I wouldn’t shit on the book over something so small, but for me personally that one little word pretty much instantly changed how much I was enjoying the book. What are more inconsequential tidbits from books that just bothered people for no good reason?
by korehanan
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It’s not a book so idk if it counts, but there’s a movie I tried watching recently called Under the Eiffel Tower, and there’s a scene where the waiter brings back the MC’s credit card cut up in pieces because it was declined. Like, wtf? Is it just to show that the French are jerks? Who would do that??? I had to turn it off. So dumb. No one would do that!
Didn’t really ruin it for me, but I remember in the original hardcover of The Green Mile when they had the bad prison guard tied up, the book said that he “wiped his brow” (or something similar involving his hands that should have been impossible). Took me out of the story because I thought maybe he had gotten loose and was going to escape.
I have no idea what the book was called but the love interest literally gets stabbed and dies because he sneezes when they’re hiding in a (basement?tunnel?) some sort of YA book.
It was so absurdly stupid i don’t even know if I finished it it was so ridiculous and bizarre.