I don‘t know maybe it’s an allergy I have, or perhaps it’s more like a food intolerance i.e. when I see a liberal sprinkling of adverbs I become intolerant to them.
For example I began reading a science fiction book two weeks ago. It started well, I liked the premise and the writing was good. It soon became apparent that it was going to be a long book (even by scifi standards). But hey, if it was good, so what? However, by the time I got 20% in I was becoming irritated with it and by 30% I gave up. Now there were several reasons behind this. First was that the story seemed to be going round in circles with people repeating the same arguments and hence the story not getting very far. Then there were some plot elements that didn’t really make sense to me. Finally, I had issues with the writing.
