New record for abandoning a book

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  1. CheshirePhoenix

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    So I tried Arcane Survivalist and ... yeah. I couldn't even make it through the prologue.

    Not because the writing was terrible, which it was.

    Not because the premise was bad, which I didn't even read enough to really discover.

    But because of the profanity. I was a sergeant in the Army and am a combat veteran - I use profanity in lieu of punctuation, but damn. It was *that* bad. It wasn't even really creative! At least put some effort into it, sheesh.
     
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    Yes, I saw this a while ago on Royal Road. I had counted the amount of times profanity was used in the blurb, and at that point just stopped. It's immature profanity.
     
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    Yeah, I could just picture the author giggling at blue balls that grow on trees and thinking that's the height of wit.
     




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