@Enema_Cowboy@skaeth@bluGill@bookstodon When I was younger I read books all the way through. I think DUNE was the first one I picked up and didn't finish. It took some years for me to come back to it and finish it. Now more and more stuff gets tossed into the DNF pile. If I'm not hooked by the first chapter, it's deleted from my Kindle. This replaces browsing in the local Borders or B&N and reading the blurb on the back of a new book on the SF table. I'm usually suckered by Amazon's blurbs into buying a book.
I have authors I've banned because of their writing or how they treat their characters. Anything with abuse or overly explicit violence gets banned. I won't read Victoria Swann because of 1 chapter in a novel. Exadelic by Jon Evens has ritual abuse and I'll never read anything he writes.