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Are you irritated by mistakes in diction when you read a published book?

I'll spot an author a faux pax, especially a diffy. Maybe two in a long work, same with typos. Depends on how egregious it is. However, if it's typical mistakes repeated regularly, or just sloppy writing, it'll throw me out of the story. I do read fan fiction, and I might be more tolerant there. Published books should have professional editors. I've had editor miss hard diction words in my own writing. I will admit that I've slogged through bad writing for the sake of a compelling story. I'm a sucker for good stories.

Hmm... That makes me think of /The Hunger Games/. The author didn't understand how to write the past tense, and it only got worse when something was written in the future in the past or the past in the past. It made me want to scream. But. I read the story. I read the sequels. Maybe I'm a masochist?

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