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Old 07-17-2024, 06:36 PM   #2836
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How many of those beach reads are romance novels?
Seems to be a mix.
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Old 07-18-2024, 01:28 AM   #2837
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"Beach" is a verb in the Barbie film, maybe that's their inspiration
or they've fired too many people and replaced them with a garbage text generator (so called "AI")
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Old 07-23-2024, 07:17 PM   #2838
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I just came across an AI-generated book cover.

Honestly I'm surprised I haven't seen one before... at least not one that's got that explicit artificial look.
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Old 07-23-2024, 07:32 PM   #2839
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The flowers floating off into space, the wonky-looking legs (at least they don't have any extra ones)...oh yeah and that screwed-up bench. It's not even good AI art, lol.
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Old 07-23-2024, 08:18 PM   #2840
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The flowers floating off into space, the wonky-looking legs (at least they don't have any extra ones)...oh yeah and that screwed-up bench. It's not even good AI art, lol.
That cover really screams...DON'T BUY THIS BOOK!
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That cover really screams...DON@T BUY THIS BOOK!
Don't worry, I won't!
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Hmm. I actually like the cover. Not that it makes me buy the book, not my genre. But the cover is kinda cute, IMO. Even if it's obviously artificial.
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Hmm. I actually like the cover. Not that it makes me buy the book, not my genre. But the cover is kinda cute, IMO. Even if it's obviously artificial.
It's cute in an Exorcist pea-soup kind of way.
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Old 07-23-2024, 09:09 PM   #2844
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Hmm. I actually like the cover. Not that it makes me buy the book, not my genre. But the cover is kinda cute, IMO. Even if it's obviously artificial.
A lot of cozy mysteries have that style of cover, but actually made by artists who know what they're doing.
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A lot of cozy mysteries have that style of cover, but actually made by artists who know what they're doing.
Yes, I've seen lots of them when browsing, but most of them don't evoke this "awww" feeling in me. Dunno, maybe I just have bad taste.
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Yes, I've seen lots of them when browsing, but most of them don't evoke this "awww" feeling in me. Dunno, maybe I just have bad taste.
I too get an awww feeling with this cover.

Awww no, not another really poorly deigned cover.
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Books / Series that change dramatically in plot / writing style.

I recently fell into the rabbit hole of reading the Alex Cross series by James Patterson and find that the entire "feel" of the books change as I get into the more recent books.

They've become far more lurid I suppose.

I can't help but think there are probably ghost writers involved.

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I recently fell into the rabbit hole of reading the Alex Cross series by James Patterson and find that the entire "feel" of the books change as I get into the more recent books.

...I can't help but think there are probably ghost writers involved.

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James Patterson is more factory than author. But, so far as I know, other authors are usually acknowledged on the cover of the book.
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If there is no other author on the cover, Patterson wrote the book himself.
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From what little I know about James Patterson, I wasn't even sure he was a real person.

I know of at least one nonexistent author. "Lauren Brooke", who wrote a juvenile horse-fiction series called Heartland (this later was adapted into a popular television series by CBC) was actually a handful of ghostwriters under the company Working Partners.

There's also a weird case in V.C. Andrews, who wrote maybe half a dozen books before dying but now she has a zillion ghostwritten books to her name.
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