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Originally Posted by cybmole
Maybe I am mean but I detest and edit out everything that comes before the story, in my reading copies. Dedications are the worst, why do I need to know or care that the tome is dedicated to some random relative, or worse some random initials. If I go to a movie there is no opening scene where main actor gets to say I dedicate this role to auntie dotty.
So for once I am with amazon on where to open at. And that is enough channelling of Katie Hopkins for today.
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On the other hand, what with the move comparison, you have to put up with far worse other kinds of junk.
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Originally Posted by cybmole
And peeve 2 is the arty smarty epigraph, which is where the author quotes some obscure dead white guy, usually, to prove that he/she is better educated than you will ever be.
Now , shall I mention acknowledgments-, there's thankfully no five minutes at end of movie where actors namecheck everyone they ever met, so why do novelists feel the need...
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Why do you care what is tacked onto the
end of the book? You don't have to keep reading...
Also again with the ridiculous move comparisons. Actors don't get to say any acknowledgments the same way editors and cover artists and agents and other assorted miscellania in the book world don't get to say any acknowledgments. On the other hand, movies do have credits, which serves much the same purpose as acknowledgments.
You are being irrational and orthogonal.