Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish Turn offs (basically, what gets on my nerves while reading)

This is a weekly feature created by The Broke and the Bookish which I enjoy writing (but really don't get to, recently). Because lists!

We all have those certain aspects in a novel that we pushes our buttons. A lot.

1. Over-the-top Love Triangles (especially in not-contemporary)
There are quite a lot of exceptions to this rule, like The Infernal Devices, but there are also a lot that revels in my number one turn off. Sometimes authors tend to focus more on the love triangle - who will you choose? - that the main problem and more important happenings gets overlooked. It gets all about him or him, her or her, him or her.

What makes this turn off worse is when the MC gets really horny. I'm serious. When she's making out with this one, she's thinking of the other. When he's admiring her, the other is at the back of his mind. Those really piss me off. A lot. I mean, there's an entirely different thing that deserves your immediate attention than whose hair is fluffier.

2. "The Chosen One"
The Harry Potter series have stretched this title to its end and I believe that's where we put the line. I'm not saying to get rid of The Chosen One altogether - sometimes you actually need it - but authors should find a way to veer off from the typical "saving the day then happily ever after" story line because it's lacking its originality.

In contrary to this turn off is The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness which I am so excited about. It'll be released in August 2015 and this time we get to look into the lives of those not chosen, the forgotten ones, the best friends and the classmates.

3. Horny MCs
As mentioned in #1, nothing is more annoying than an MC who can't stop thinking sexually thinking about someone else's body.

4. Info Dumps
We all hate these. No explanation needed.

5. Formula 1 Love Stories
Maybe it's just how I perceive things but I do not believe in love at first sight. You can't love someone without knowing them well. This is not a race, people. For once, I side with Elsa.

6. ????
A few normal questions is fine. E.g. What is happening? Who would do this? Why the hell? A paragraph full of these is not.

Yes, The Scorch Trials, I am talking about you.

I always prefer action-packed novels with a right amount of brakes in between. Having a mystery and annoying MC that asks pointless questions is just dragging and boring.

7. Evil Monologue
Oh yes. Doofenshmirtz is apparently not alone in the literary world.

8. Fortune Tellers
In other words, predictable. It's one of the reasons why I tend to lean away from contemporaries (and romance movies). Gayle Forman and Stephanie Perkins are exceptions. John Green has yet to impress me.

9. Prophecies
Especially those rhyming ones with deep synonyms of normal words. This is much like #2, actually.

10. Stereotypes
Need I say more?

Got any bookish turn offs that really deserves a star less in rating? 

Top Ten Tuesday: CLASSICS

Say it any other way: I am not a fan of the Classics. Yet, I like them (here we go with the juxtaposition).

I have never been the kind of reader whose bookshelf contains mostly works from renowned literary legends. But I am one of those who admire said legends' writings.

That doesn't make any sense, does it?

I like Classics, especially Jane Austen. But I hate reading them.

I love how simple life was and how complicated and raw romance could be. (Do you know who I'm referencing?)

Even though it may seem otherwise, I have nothing against Classics. I just find them very very very hard to read. Harder than Shakespeare, even.

So here's the top ten Classics I so want to read but probably never would but I still would try to: (No Shakespeare because I actually enjoy that Elizabethan.)

1. Pride & Prejudice - For obvious reasons. And love love love the varying cover editions. Watch the Lizzie Bennet Diaries and Pride & Prejudice (2005). Loved and enjoyed them both. Never going to read this, though.

2. Anna Karenina - Watched the movie. Loved it. Tried reading the book. I just. Can't. Finish. It.

3. Little Women - Caught half of the movie in Star Movies, I think. This is actually required reading so yes, I'm reading it.

4. 1984 - Been hearing about this a lot. Been curious ever since.

5. A Tale of Two Cities - Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare purposes.

6. Frankenstein - Been hopelessly confused about the real story of Frankenstein from all the different version I've watched.

7. The Phantom of the Opera

8. Farenheit 451

9. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath. No explanations needed.

10. A Wrinkle in Time - Mix science fiction with classics and I may just spend some money on this.

How ironic that if given the chance, I would study English Literature in college. (Film and Creative Writing, first.)

Top Ten Tuesday: Worlds and Characters

Hosted by The Broke & The Bookish

This Tuesday's Top Ten features worlds I'd never want to live in and characters I'd never want to trade places with. As a dystopian reader, it's pretty easy to narrow down my list.

This is randomly arranged.

1.

Never in my life would I ever want to live in Panem before and during the Rebellion. For obvious reasons. However, I would love to be Katniss when Panem's at peace and the Hunger Games gone forever. *coughs* Peeta...epilogue *coughs*

2.

To be admitted to an asylum for so long because I could kill people with my touch? No thanks. 

Although, to have the golden boy, Warner, fall for you...

3.

I would never live in an extremely breathtaking spaceship for the rest of my life. Much less be cryogenically frozen to sleep for centuries, only to wake up nearly dying.

Read this sci-fi and trust me, Godspeed isn't the ship you thought is was.

4.

Let us return to the 15 years before the Choosing Ceremony, when life was full of constant selflessness at Abnegation. I'd rather read books at Erudite. 

The other [dystopian] books cramming on my shelf aren't so bad - probably. How about you? Got any characters you adore but never want to be? Or worlds so cruel they aren't meant for you to live in?