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Originally Posted by HarryT
Honest answer? No, it doesn't annoy me. Celebrity ghost-written books and the latest diet craze are what keep bookshops in business, and allow us to buy the good books, too. If publishers didn't publish the popular crap, they wouldn't be able to stay in business to publish the "real" books.
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So we just give in? We just allow this shit to keep happening because its happened before? We condition generation upon generation to this mind-washing, idiotic bullshit because it 'sells', because its what 'the market wants' and as a knock-on effect a few 'good' books are actually produced.
No.
We can't continue to let our culture spiral down into this morass of shit for much longer. We must be angry, as readers, as educators, as human beings for God's sake. We can't stand idly by when more people read the works of Jordan than they do Dylan Thomas.