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Originally Posted by gastan
I did not mean to suggest, in my original post, that there are no good self-published books. I have read more than one.
I was referring to books that, even with a novel/interesting idea/approach or style, are so badly written, structurally, with literally dozens of misspelled words and misused homonyms and run-on sentences and no paragraphs and incorrect punctuation, or jumbled tenses and mixed metaphors become so gut-wrenching that you can't stomach one more page turn, knowing that there will be more and more and more of everything on the next page, so many that you aren't even sure what the heck is happening in the plot anymore but you turn that page anyway because you don't want to think of yourself as an overly critical ass but hate yourself for doing it until you finally give up and go back for a new book which is hard to do even if you use the "have a look inside" option because reading 2 or 3 pages from 30 books to FINALLY find one that appears to have been edited takes a long, long time and when you finally can shout "Hallelujah, I found one" you almost swoon with gratitude.
I certainly did not mean to imply that all traditionally published books were "good" books. But at least you can expect that they received some editing ..... the lack of which is the reason for my acquired distaste for self-published "literature".
It is comforting to know that I am not completely alone.
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If you will tell me what genre you like, maybe I can lead you to some good authors. Or at least authors that are actually readable because the group I know do care about good writing. I would guarantee less than 3 errors per book.