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Originally Posted by hidari
anal retentiveness about grammar is great for people who care..... I reckon most don't.....Story trumps anal retentive grammar faux pas any day...
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English not being my first language, I am sure I am bound to miss many grammar en spelling errors. However, I tend to consider it a complete disrespect for the reader when books are riddled with errors that are so glaring obvious that even I notice them.
Having tried quite a few self published books, I have also noticed that sloppy grammar and spelling often goes hand in hand with sloppy story telling. So, my personal conclusion is that for the time being self published works are on average not worth my time. I am sure I miss many great books by only reading books from publishing houses -- but there's so many great books out there that I anyway won't be able to read more than a fraction of them during my lifetime.