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Originally Posted by hard-boiled pat
What's the worst book you've ever read? for me it's a three way tie between 'savages' by don winslow, 'chasers' by Lorenzo Carcaterra and 'black water transit' by carsten stroud. in my mind, i would rather kill myself than re-read those three books.
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If you haven't delved into the marvelous world of self-publishing, you have NO IDEA what "bad writing" really means. None. As much as mainstream publishers allow books to get sloppy or go to print without a much-needed final proof pass... it all pales in comparison to some of the dreck people release onto the web with the assumption that, since the idea looked good inside their head, they've successfully conveyed that idea to the reader.
Nevermind the assumption that ideas that look good in their head would appeal to readers. That, too, gets some real winners--and by "winners" I mean "my eyes, my eyes, mygods I cannot unsee the horror"--but the ones who think their drivel is entertaining is nowhere near as bad as the ones who have not mastered the use of the alphabet but think they've managed to put together an Epic Tale Of Something-Or-Other, and I could maybe figure out the genre if I could just figure out what that phrase in the blurb was supposed to mean.
I'm not giving examples because I hope those authors get an education at some point and become deeply ashamed that they ever thought they could make money from *that* collection of nearly-random words with punctuation assigned as if by blender-splatter.