Most HATED Mainstream Novel Plots

[norilana]

(Simultaneously posting this starter post here and on Facebook and on SFF Net, so everyone can reply wherever they prefer.)

Still on the mainstream novel track -- quick question to all: what's your LEAST favorite story/plot that you can remember reading in a mainstream novel?

What were the specific details that you truly HATED about it?... Minor

Comments

[comrade_cat]

I dunno about most hated, but the thing I am most bored with in literary fiction is stories where nothing happens, the plot is a normal incident from the character's life, & it somehow changes their mind about something, but I can't really tell how or what their new opinion is. Didn't Dickens & Hugo et al have exciting plots? (Even if I don't like Dickens...) Heck, Shakespeare had exciting plots. Grr.

& why do only scifi characters & the occasional rabid militarist care about honor?

[marycatelli]

The worst ones are so bad you can't feel passionately about them. Even to hate them.

[bluetyson]

LOL!

[jodi_davis]

Girl looks for love in all the wrong places but it's really just torture porn about how various people use her. The worst is a fat girl who becomes BEEUTIFUL - The worst perversion of ugly duckling ever. She's always weak and pathetic and has to *learn* to stand up for herself.

[rsheslin]

Stories in which the primary conflict is only a conflict because no one ever communicates! C'mon, people, talk to each other! It's not that hard!

[theswordmaiden]

I dislike that too. It's way too much like real life.