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ApK, I agree with you. Now, a whole series of paragraphs in that vein would be off-putting, but that single paragraph expresses the character, and I would not edit it.
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Because as a professional publisher they should've never Let it go to press. It's the editors' job to make sure this doesn't happen. This isn't some self published book. It's a book I paid $7 for and I expected it to be at least readable.
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Ah, but isn't it the job of the editor to catch such errors and then have the writer fix them? And what if the writer and editor are one and the same person?
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Bad is a pejorative term best reserved for college lit courses, or conversations with friends. If used in public, the ramifications can be hurtful or counterproductive. New Yorker curmudgeon, John Updike, wrote an unflattering review of Toni Morrison's novel, A Mercy. Her supporters probably fired back that she has a Nobel prize and he doesn't. Both writers tend to get stuck in a limited universe, which causes readers to shy away from their works. Neither has sold as many books as Stephenie Meyer, so put that in your pipe and smoke it.
The politically correct phrase for a book that does not succeed in the eye of the beholder is less than brilliant. And, this could either mean that the author failed in developing/presenting a story, or the subject he/she chose failed to attract enough interest on the part of the reader. Too many lumps of coal masquerade as brilliant writing. That is the ugly truth, no doubt about it. To succeed as a reader, you have to sharpen your diamond finding skills. |
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That's just it I don't think it was checked by an editor other than the automatic spell check. The book is full of problems like this. The writer had self published before this and none of her other books had these problems. It's almost like they published the wrong file instead of the edited version.
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