What details of an author's style annoy you?

[JTass]

You need to know what you don't know. I just read that and went 'aren't they?' My shooting experience is limited to air rifles, a few weeks at a rifle club, and one time in a cocktail bar in a Japan with a pistol range in back. Very drunk people and guns - what could possibly go wrong?
"Faster than a steel bullet" is a phrase, right?

So I googled and AI was fairly useless, as we're the next 20 links to videos. But the one-minute best result was Wikipedia: "A bullet is a kinetic projectile, a component of firearm ammunition that is shot from a gun barrel. They are made of a variety of materials, such as copper, lead, steel, polymer, rubber and even wax;"

A couple other results also suggested steel bullets with lead core were a norm.

What did you ask the search? Because when I googled 'what are bullets made of', the first result in the AI overview was:
Bullets are commonly made of lead, sometimes with a copper or other metal jacket.

 

[Actingup]

Present tense narrative, either first or third person. It just sounds so pretentious, and as soon as I see it the book goes back on the shelf or I click the back button.

I just suffered through one of those, but to be fair my irritation at the first person present tense became much less important than my irritation at the lesbian romance featuring untagged anal rape by the narrator’s male carer. Who naturally had an eight inch cock.

 

[Vammatar]

Regarding the position of the hymen, and the confusion some of us ladies are experiencing. I distinctly remember a very uncomfortable dull ache that was much further in than an inch or so, before it actually ruptured.
Had anyone asked me, I'd have confidently placed it at three or four inches inside, so obviously there's more to it than just the physical placement.

 

[KachinaDoll]

I hate 2nd person narratives with a vengeance.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

A number of things mentioned in this thread aren't style choices.

"I don't like cuckold stories." ~ that's not a style choice, that's a kink, a genre. One could easily write a cuckold story in their own style.

"I don't like first person." ~ that's not a style that's a PoV. One could easily write a first person story in their own style.

Style choices are things like descriptive dialogue tags, or lacking dialogue tags.

Style choices are things like heavy wordy descriptions, or quick blunt descriptions.

Style choices are things like varied sentence structure, or broken sentences, or long sentences.

Style choices are things like characters speaking in dialects like, "'Scuse me, guv. Got a fag?" vs "Excuse me. Could you spare a smoke?"

Style choices are things like slow vs quick pacing.

Style choices are things like showing vs telling.

 

[Dearelliot]

I read one of the Lit's top stories today and couldn't finish it...I felt the author just took too long to get to the meat of the story..So of course, others might like that. My thoughts, I'd like it better if he squeezed in a few short sentences of a side story. I could never criticize his writing; it's very good, just not for me.