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Originally Posted by James_Wilde
One can say that about many aspects of life, Maggie. Choosing a piece of software, going to a concert, buying clothes - do they fall apart after three months? And yes, the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval that Simon and Schuster have pulled this one out of the mailbag can be a way of passing the responsibility over to others - or filtering the dross, if you prefer.
But making choices is a fact of life, and sometimes making wrong ones is what I would call a cost of living. And I'm thinking of the hundreds of other potentially good authors whose work was in the same bag as the one that S&S pulled out, but who got the rejection slip. I'm prepared to give some of them a chance. One can usually tell after only a few pages whether one is prepared to spend time on a book or not. And reading books is not something I do for a living so that reading a bad one is a loss of profit, so I'll take a chance on a freebie, and even on a $2.99 one once in a while.
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I'm not interested in converting you to my way of choosing books. If you're happy with your approach, more power to you. This thread is about individual opinions, and I posted mine accordingly. All that matters is that we all end up reading what we enjoy. I find I get value for my money when it comes to books.