[bksvol-discuss] Re: Question for everyone: What makes you reject a book?
- From: Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:21:23 -0500
Hi all,
My reasons for rejecting a book are pretty much the same as Monica's.
If there are no page breaks, or if there are multiple occurrences of
garbled text or if there are more than a couple missing pages.
My reasons for releasing books are various. I've release books which I
probably should have rejected, mostly because they had garbled text. I
remember releasing one book because it was written by an author who
felt it was her job to preach Christianity to me in glops and gobbets
that were splattered all over the text of the book and destroyed the
story. I don't mind a book where a character has a religious
experience or what-not, but this lady started drilling about the first
page and kept it up, page after page after page. I finally released
the darned thing. I couldn't take it! Maybe that was selfish, but I
got angrier and angrier the longer I read, and so I released the book
so somebody who wasn't as affected could proof it.
I want to say here, in justification, that I dislike intensely any book
where the author has an agenda. I don't want to be hit over the head
with a point. I want to read a good story! That's why, for example, I
quit reading Marion Zimmer Bradley's books. She's got an agenda,
big-time. I've got nothing against folks who are gay, but I don't want
to hear an author whining about her injustices and promoting her point. Yuck!
Ann P.
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