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Originally Posted by MikeB1972
Really?
Because filtering "Science Fiction & Fantasy" & "Last 30 Days" on Amazon UK gives me 6,947 hits, 519 of which are 4 stars and above.
So reading the samples is out unless I've pre-selected them somehow.
And that's just the last 30 days, I've given up 
I check out the Humble bundle / story bundle stuff but other than that my only halfway reliable guide to what I will like is publishing imprint. Unless I spend more time looking for books than reading them, which kind of ruins the idea of reading for pleasure.
So, personally, I seem to be stuck in TradPub land as it currently seems to be my best filter mechanism. On the plus side SF Gateway alone can keep me stocked for several lifetimes so I'm not too worried about it.  |
I literally do not understand what this ^^ is supposed to mean.
What it sounds like, reminds me of Wentworth, from
The Wee Free Men:
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Wentworth was sitting on a large, flat stone, surrounded by sweets. Many of them were bigger than he was. Smaller ones were in piles, large ones lay like logs. And they were in every color sweets can be, such as Not-Really-Raspberry Red, Fake-Lemon Yellow, Curiously-Chemical Orange, Some-Kind-of-Acidy Green, and Who-Knows-What Blue.
Tears were falling off his chin in blobs. Since they were landing among the sweets, serious stickiness was already taking place.
Wentworth howled. His mouth was a big red tunnel with the wobbly thing that no one knows the name of bouncing up and down in the back of his throat. He stopped crying only when it was time to either breathe in or die, and even then it was only for one huge sucking moment before the howl came back again.
Tiffany knew what the problem was immediately. She’d seen it before, at birthday parties. Her brother was suffering from tragic sweet deprivation. Yes, he was surrounded by sweets. But the moment he took any sweet at all, said his sugar-addled brain, that meant he was not taking all the rest. And there were so many sweets he’d never be able to eat them all. It was too much to cope with. The only solution was to burst into tears.
The only solution at home was to put a bucket over his head until he calmed down, and to take almost all the sweets away. He could deal with a few handfuls at a time.
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Problem is, I feel sure that cannot be the case here.
Also, I am sure that tradpub sells more than enough sweets to overwhelm several cities of Wentworths. (Even if you need the sea of indies to overwhelm a country of him.)