Book tossing

Have you ever become so disgusted with a book that you said "ARRGGH!" and threw it across the room? Disgusted not with the message or content, but with an idiocy by the author?

Today, after reading a really stupid scene in a science fiction novel, I closed the book and put it down and said, "That's enough." Set the scene: A high-ranking naval officer goes to her office and determines someone is inside, someone who somehow got through security. She also notices that her computer is on, so she goes to check and discovers her computer is transmitting data. She has to shoot a bad guy before she can get to her computer. She then tries to enter a stop code, but her computer continues transmitting data.

Now I don't know much about computers, but when my computer starts doing stuff it isn't supposed to do, I figure we are under virus attack and I turn the darned thing off! The heroine of the book does not to that. No. "She picked up a chair and smashed it against the console. It flashed up in sparks, and the screen went dark." Aha. Show that console it's not supposed to transmit data. Uh, but wait a minute. You get the idea.

Not quite as bad as a book about pirates in the 17th century, a battle at sea, between sailing ships, and the captain ordered "Full speed astern!" That one I threw across the room.

ARRGGH!