Top Ten Tuesday: I Won't Pick Up a Book

A weekly meme hosted by The Broke and The Bookish, we answer the weekly prompt then visit others who have as well. Come have fun with us, meet new friends and discover new-to-you blogs and books!

This week we are discussing words or topics that will NOT make us pick up a book--the inverse of when we discussed topics that make us want to read a book. For that, you can check out my Top Ten Post: What Instantly Makes Me Pick Up a Book.

I try very hard to read books that are out of my natural comfort zone, as I feel it is important to give books/genres a shot every so often. That does not mean that I would give up my favorite books or genres any day of the week, but rather I feel it helps me to keep reading outside of my comfort zone makes me a better reader/reviewer/librarian overall.

The list below are the topics I usually shy away from, for whatever reason listed:

1) S&M--if the whole book is surrounding this, than I most likely am not going to pick it up. Just not a topic that I want to read...

2) hardcore Science Fiction--this is a rough one to say how I define it but I am not a fan of Strek Trek or Star Wars...so anything similar to it I probably won't read. Now I did read and enjoy Ender's Game but I did not finish the rest of the series--it was good but not my preference.

3) I sometimes struggle with getting into High Fantasy novels. I have been working on getting into this genre more over the years, and it honestly just depends on how complicated and how well done the world building is done in the book on whether I will be able to stick it out.

4) This is also a funky habit of mine but I will not read a book just because it is popular--it has to have something in it that makes ME want to read it. 

5) Pirates: LOL, this is a funny one but there are very few books with pirates that I am drawn to enough to pick up and want to read. When I say pirates, I mean the main characters are pirates, not stories with pirates in them. 

Hmm...above is what I can think of as to what my book quirks are. Any on my list that are one of the reasons why you pick up the book? What other ones do you have that I did not include? Be sure to leave your link in the comments below so I can come visit you!