[quidscribis]

There was one book I read about a decade ago that had so much useless gratuitous profanity that I ended up getting so fed up with it that I grabbed a black felt marker and started blacking them out. It was pretty shocking seeing how many black marks there ended up being. Of course, I gave up after a few pages or so, both blacking it out and reading it.

I'm pretty sure it was a Ludlum, so possibly the one mentioned further upstream, although I wouldn't swear to it on a stack of Bibles.

Occasional profanity I can handle. Gratuitous everywhere profanity? I won't even read it. To me, it feels like laziness on the part of the writer.