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What are your red flags for instantly disregarding a book without ever giving it a chance /lit/?

>written by a woman
>written from the view of a woman
>features gratuitous sex
>set anywhere but europe/NA/or east asia

That's it, if a book falls into any of those categories I will never as long as I live read it

>> No.8906606

>>8906603

I hate /pol/ so much.

>> No.8906610
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8906610

If it's written by an American black, and the subject matter is being black in America.

>>8906606
Go back.

>> No.8906613

>>8906610
>blacks
>having the capacity to write

o i am laffin

>> No.8906616

>>8906610
w-what is the sauce for that image?

>> No.8906632

>>8906603
>Written by non-white about being "muh poor, oppressed magical POC"
>written by woman about being "muh poor, oppressed, magical womyn"
>written by leftwinger or jew about the horrors of colonialism, right wing politics, gender-normative blah blah, hetero-patriarchal blah blah, sexuality suppressing blah blah, "muh poor, POC/immigrants/fags/whatever"
>popular primarily among middle-aged women or teenage girls

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>>8906613
I distinctly recall them having Invisible Man as required reading in High School. I couldn't stand reading it after a few pages and decided to write about it at length as though it were some kind of monster story in the same vein as Frankenstein about a literal creature that can't be seen on the final. My teacher gave me a respectable amount of partial credit.

>> No.8906635

>>8906603
The writer lives in Portland, hippie areas in Cali or Manhattan or Brooklyn

>> No.8906636

>>8906603
>written by an american