People who've edited or betaed or just plain read critically for word choice--who would you most want to be the editor for, and who the least?

I wonder what editing Samuel Delany would be like...

oh gods, editing Nova. Or Dhalgren. WOW.

This sounds like an editorial CFM, ita. ::thinking::

This sounds like an editorial CFM, ita

Yes, one with an open cast. I still haven't finished Dhalgren. I love it, but I can't fucking READ it. I'm fascinated by the opinions of people with more reading and more critical reading than mine.

Nook is having a sale right now on book bundles. Is the Divergence series worth $29.99. Three Dragonriders for $9.99--Dragonflight, Dragonquest, and The White Dragon, maybe. I'm curious to see how rapey they feel to an adult reader. Outlander for $50 (that is probably more than I can justify right now, but I could pull tight on other things--it is 7 books)? Here's the full list, for anyone interested (remember, you can read them without having a Nook (Amy).

Has anyone else read the Martian yet? SO GOOD!!!

Oh man, the Outlander series is so tempting. I still haven't read the last few books, and I need to reread from the beginning.

ita, if you want the Divergent books, give me a day or two and I'll mail you the first two. I have them, and I'm not going to read them.

Also, explain the editing question some more? This is someone you would want to edit because you feel s/he needs editing that doesn't get done?

This is someone you would want to edit because you feel s/he needs editing that doesn't get done?

No--someone who you think you'd be good at editing, whose prose you'd like to be part of fixing up, and could produce a book you'd be proud of.

Why aren't you reading Divergent? I mean, should I?

How much does it bother you when the third book in a trilogy goes off the rails?

Oh. Well, that can vary from amusement to stopping reading. Hmm.

It's just not my kind of dystopia. I'm actually not a huge fan of dystopia -- I really prefer post-apocalyptic stuff. The Hunger Games books were fantastic, but they also made a weird kind of sense to me that some of the other really contrived dystopias don't.

I forget how I ended up with them. When I was promoting Cold Kiss, I ended up getting a lot of books from my editor and other people.

No--someone who you think you'd be good at editing, whose prose you'd like to be part of fixing up, and could produce a book you'd be proud of.

That's a complicated question, I think because any author I'm already reading has already been edited, so it's hard to tell where the raw material ends and the editor's work began. If that makes sense.

I do remember what it felt like to come across new authors I wanted to acquire who blew me away,though. That's a great feeling.

I wouldn't pay for the Divergent series, it's not something I have any desire to re-read. First book was pretty good. Second, meh. Third total waste of reading time.