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Originally Posted by Catlady
You don't see the book title, author, epigraph, chapter, and text shown without any spaces between lines or any typographical distinctions?
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Who cares? I rather not have the sample wasted space with the "proper" front matter. Even if the book was like this I really could care less about it.
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You don't see the new paragraphs sometimes flush and sometimes indented? You don't see periods instead of commas? You don't see words run together (Danishmodern, selfflagellation)? You don't see dialog from different speakers run together in the same paragraph?
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Yes, whenever I see a non indented paragraph I am imagining a little gap in between that one and the last. Periods instead of points? Now you are complaining about too simple sentences? I rather have simple sentences than long ones where nobody bothered to add any punctuation. Writing style is horrible, I give you that. But I am not judging that - it might have been done on purpose. Running words together is not a foreign concept to me, I am German after all. If I see an author wrongly use compound words that are technically spelling mistakes in "pure english", I just think that they have knowledge in more than one language. That is refreshing to see, and usually doesn't make me lose my pace. OTOH what I don't like is the inclusion of real German words that are used incorrectly (e.g. plural form used when a single is referenced) -- either do it right or stick to english words.
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And then there are the errors that may or may not have been carried over from the print copy (inconsistent capitalization, no italics for a show title).
I'm stunned that anyone could look at that mess and think it's acceptable.
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It is not a front list book. Even when it was new it was a midlist. Why are you demanding frontlist quality on a backlist formerly midlist title?