{"id":18814,"date":"2013-05-21T00:01:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T04:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=18814"},"modified":"2013-05-20T12:46:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T16:46:17","slug":"bookish-turn-offs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/05\/21\/bookish-turn-offs\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookish Turn-Offs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I asked: <a title=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/05\/13\/what-gets-you-to-read-a-book\/\" href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/05\/13\/what-gets-you-to-read-a-book\/\"><strong>what gets you to read a book<\/strong><\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>What works to convince you to\u00a0<em>pick up that book<\/em> and start reading?<\/p>\n<p>That post generated over 180 comments.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s actually pretty enlightening &#8212; I&#8217;d suggest that writers and publishers and anybody peripherally related to the publishing industry poke through those comments. It&#8217;s a long read, but contains some surprising answers (f&#8217;rex, blurbs figure in more than I would&#8217;ve imagined).<\/p>\n<p>This week, I want to look at the other side of the question:<\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve picked up a book, what gets you to set it down?<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, what ensures you won&#8217;t likely pick it up again?<\/p>\n<p>What is it about a story, the writing, the author that stops you from reading further? What for you is the\u00a0<em>story-killer<\/em>? Something about the wordsmithy? Something about the content or about a character? I will, as always, hang up and wait for your answer.<\/p>\n<p>*click*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I asked: what gets you to read a book? What works to convince you to\u00a0pick up that book and start reading? That post generated over 180 comments. It&#8217;s actually pretty enlightening &#8212; I&#8217;d suggest that writers and publishers and anybody peripherally related to the publishing industry poke through those comments. It&#8217;s a long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-4Ts","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18814"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18817,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18814\/revisions\/18817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}