Daniel T. OHaraI decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it.
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I can be quite angry at certain books, but I do not get angry at the books themselves. I get angry at their effect on me. I am angry at the real people who wrote the book. Sometimes the book is so bad that it makes me want to murder its author.
Most of these books are written by authors who do not know how to write. They try to create characters that are interesting but do not have much depth. The story itself is poorly developed, and the emotions it creates in the reader are often false.
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