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After trashing the book I was reading earlier in this thread (sorry author), I just wanted to follow up by commenting that the last book I read, Thugs Like Us by John Carnell, was fantastically written. It was a night vs day comparison.
You have to like pretty bleak material to enjoy it as it's not a particularly happy story, but the writing was fantastic.
The good thing about this whole situation is that if you think self-publishing is filled to the brim with crap and not worth your time, there is still a huge amount of traditionally published works on the market. I don't think there's any shortage of material out there.
And for those who think that the search is worth it despite the slush, you can find some real gems. I certainly haven't regretted stumbling across John Logan, David Michael, Marcin Wrona, Alisa Tangredi and now John Carnell. And it's hard to regret Hugh Howey in this whole thing. Even if he is a bit of a hybrid now, if we were all so concerned about slush we didn't bother trying, there would be no Silo series. So thankfully enough people are not intimidated by the challenge.
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