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Okay, in honor of turkey day, let's celebrate the those turkeys you read on your Kindle. Books you thought were going to be good but didn't even remotely live up to the hype. Books where you shake your head that you threw your money away. Those that you call Amazon and ask them to remove from your content library because you don't want them to contaminate the others. You get the idea...
I'll go first with this doozie:
Now let me give you a little background on this and how I came to have the jaw-dropping amazing experience of reading it.
This book was originally self-published by the author. A junior editor at HarperCollins is assigned to scan the Amazon catalog, looking for new and undiscovered jewels among all the lumps of coal that exist there. He found this. Sounds promising, right? What every author dreams of...being discovered by a big, New York City publisher and being offered a lucrative book contract with an advance and royalties.
Since I read alot of indie authors and self-published stuff, I was naturally curious about this one. I saw five star reviews at Amazon and downloaded the sample. The sample was pretty good--the writing was fast and breezy--and I went ahead and bought the book.
And then...Oh. My. God. What started off okay just turned into a ridiculous pile of junk. The story was ridiculously convoluted with nine zillion characters that I couldn't keep straight. Supposedly it was "meticulously researched" but I found anachronisms on every page. The characters were completely unbelievable. Everything about this book was unbelievable!
Amazingly enough, I read to the very end. I was fascinated...with every absurd plot twist or line of dialog I'd think, "She can't out do herself this time..." but the author did...over and over again, right up until the completely preposterous ending.
I have decided that the five star reviews at Amazon are all written by buddies of the author. A more realistic review of the limitations of this book can be found here.
L
I'll go first with this doozie:

Now let me give you a little background on this and how I came to have the jaw-dropping amazing experience of reading it.
This book was originally self-published by the author. A junior editor at HarperCollins is assigned to scan the Amazon catalog, looking for new and undiscovered jewels among all the lumps of coal that exist there. He found this. Sounds promising, right? What every author dreams of...being discovered by a big, New York City publisher and being offered a lucrative book contract with an advance and royalties.
Since I read alot of indie authors and self-published stuff, I was naturally curious about this one. I saw five star reviews at Amazon and downloaded the sample. The sample was pretty good--the writing was fast and breezy--and I went ahead and bought the book.
And then...Oh. My. God. What started off okay just turned into a ridiculous pile of junk. The story was ridiculously convoluted with nine zillion characters that I couldn't keep straight. Supposedly it was "meticulously researched" but I found anachronisms on every page. The characters were completely unbelievable. Everything about this book was unbelievable!
Amazingly enough, I read to the very end. I was fascinated...with every absurd plot twist or line of dialog I'd think, "She can't out do herself this time..." but the author did...over and over again, right up until the completely preposterous ending.
I have decided that the five star reviews at Amazon are all written by buddies of the author. A more realistic review of the limitations of this book can be found here.
L