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In reply to the discussion: What's the last book you read? How would rate it---5 being great ---1 being it is not a reread. [View all]bucolic_frolic
(43,492 posts)52. For me this is a funny question
I read a book by a new author I met in a writers group. I won't mention title or name because it was awful. It was like no editing, characters that repeated the same words and actions throughout, not a lot of plot, and the ending was a 90 degree turn as if it needed to be finished fast. If there were 4 ways to say something, all 4 were included in successive paragraphs, so you sure couldn't miss them.
I'm not sure self-publishing Amazon has improved what's available in any given year. The vast, vast majority will never make a dime. But people can call themselves "writer"!!!
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What's the last book you read? How would rate it---5 being great ---1 being it is not a reread. [View all]
debm55
Mar 24
OP
TY, Dirvaen. You might want to try the library. You don't have to pay for the books and when you take them back , they
debm55
Mar 24
#5
I finished Octavia Butler's book 1 "Dawn" of her Xeogenisis/Lilith's Brood Trilogy...
electric_blue68
Mar 24
#10
Last one I finished was fiction - Victory City by Salman Rushdie; give it a 4
Backseat Driver
Mar 25
#18