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Have you ever read any books that you reckon don't deserve to be published? email this discussion to a friend?

whitestarr (24)   ranked 4,656 out of 7,594 in reading10 months ago

Have you ever read any books that are so utterly terrible that you reckon they don't deserve to be published? What was the book about? And why did you hate it? And what would you have written instead if you were the author?

 
 
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1. myLot reputation of 74/100. mermaid911 (550)   ranked 189 out of 7,594 in reading   10 months ago

Sure did. I didn't even finish reading them. Sometimes I just look at the story at he back and choose not to read them anymore. I don't really remember much of it anymore. Not worth remembering. But mostly, if I wouldn't like a book, it would be because of a very weak or predictable plot.


myLot reputation of 63/100. Kentbush18 (146)  10 months ago

Whenever there is such a book and I have to read it for somereason, I would directly turn to the last few pages and try to figure out the ending or conclusion and then throw the book away. However, every book is published for a reason. It may either the author wants to provoke something few people have ever fathomed or simply the author has bribed the publisher.

The books I think deserve not publishing also include those plagiarise other's plots, theories or data. By the way, novels of a weak or predictable plot should not be published as well.


whitestarr (24)   ranked 4,656 out of 7,594 in reading  10 months ago

I agree with you Mermaid... predictable plots are boring... i don't know how many stories I've read that are some form of the classical Cinderella story

To Kentbush: Sometimes, i flip to the back of the book to figure out the ending too! I guess some authors actually pay the publisher to be published...

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2. myLot reputation of 63/100. Kentbush18 (146)   10 months ago

Surely I do! It seems that in some countries, people can publish whatever they want as long as they have money, without any governmental censorship. Since it is profitable, publishers surely have no objection to publish any books that do themselves no harm.

Now let's go deeper into a problem -- why we think that book deserves not to be published? One of the possibilities is that the book is really bad, hopelessly bad. Another possibility is that we cannot understand the author, because our thinking and the author's belong to different dimension.


whitestarr (24)   ranked 4,656 out of 7,594 in reading  10 months ago

mmh... very in depth... maybe there's something "good" in every book after all.


myLot reputation of 63/100. Kentbush18 (146)  10 months ago

But I wonder such an in-depth book really have a lot of loyal reader.

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3. myLot reputation of 97/100. lightningMD (5537)   ranked 286 out of 7,594 in reading   10 months ago

I have started a few books like that,but I didn't finish them. If I cant get into a book by the third chapter I usually just dont read it at all.

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