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Originally Posted by Hitch
Seriously? So, you, what, enabled the author to keep the money, without a bad review or a return?
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Where did I ever say that?
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Feel free to add bad reviews. Maybe if others had done that, you wouldn't have bought the book in the first place. Help out your fellow man!
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Noooo. Why should I? Amazon has enabled any Tom, Dick or Harriet to publish, which is all well and good, but does that mean I have to endorse and enable them with MY hard-earned? No, brother. No. I'm helping them if they understand that they've done something wrong in that book. I still maintain that they'd rather have me return the dough, then write a review. The dough is a pain in passing--a bad review lasts forever. (Given how few authors today use crit or writing groups....which they should, and don't, they're lucky if they don't engender more bad reviews.)
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Why are you so into protecting bad authors from the bad reviews their books deserve? You keep mentioning it as if you are some sort of hero. If the book sucks, tell others 'hey, this book sucks!'
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Sorry, but the free sample doesn't always show you the heinous flaws. As I said--I had one that started out pretty great and then, OMG, it hit the saggy middle and it simply fell through the floor. Tedious doesn't begin to describe it. And I've seen some that simply cobbled together an ending, that made NO sense. I just had a book from an author that I typically like--and if that ending wasn't the writer's equivalent of DWI, I'm damned. The book was fine; it had this plot element that made me scrunch up my forehead and then they had this idiotic explanation for it. DUH. I didn't return it, but...I was tempted. It was soooooooooooo stupid. For a writer with her experience--over 15 years'--it wasn't just a mistake, it was laziness.
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Because before ebooks, that never happened? Again, were you in the habit of returning your half finished paper books, explaining your problems with structure or murkiness of themes to the cashier in order to justify your demand for a refund?
Hey, maybe if that book already had a review that said something like:
"started out pretty great and then, OMG, it hit the saggy middle and it simply fell through the floor. Tedious doesn't begin to describe it. And I've seen some that simply cobbled together an ending, that made NO sense. I just had a book from an author that I typically like--and if that ending wasn't the writer's equivalent of DWI, I'm damned. The book was fine; it had this plot element that made me scrunch up my forehead and then they had this idiotic explanation for it. DUH. I didn't return it, but...I was tempted. It was soooooooooooo stupid. For a writer with her experience--over 15 years'--it wasn't just a mistake, it was [I]laziness." you might have avoided a bad purchase.