Wash ,'Bushwhacked'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I also think that publishing companies have no idea what makes something a bestseller and they're afraid to meddle.
Probably true, although for people like King, I doubt there's anything an editor could do that would prevent the book from selling. Even bad reviews don't do that.
Yup - I'm with 'suela. Once you're a monolith, you're a monolith. Or in King's case, more like a menhir.
I've read several of the list above and quite liked A high Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes. Not really one I'd recommend for a 'normal' book club, tho.
'Odd' bookclub? You're in bidness.
doubt there's anything an editor could do that would prevent the book from selling
Makes sense not to edit it, then. Just leave it be and rake in the dough.
I loved Exodus. Great book. In the "can't put it down" category. I think my dad read it in a weekend when he was in college (and my dad's not much of a novel reader, much more into periodicals and non-fiction books).
Makes sense not to edit it, then. Just leave it be and rake in the dough.
Especially if, even though you are an editor, your bosses think the most important part of your job is keeping your biggest-selling client happy, rather than putting out the most polished text possible.
So, I think the final Left Behind book is released tomorrow -- where apparently everything is happyshinynice for the people who were smart enough to get on the Jesus Train, and those who didn't will be getting the shit beaten out of them. It has a white cover (versus the black cover of the last 11, because it was all gloom, doom, and gnashing of teeth).
I'm ashamed to admit, I want to read it, because I want to see how it's wrapped up.
Kind of like the way I skipped the last 2 years of Dawson's Creek but watched the finale.
Teppy, no doubt the good end happily, and the evil end unhappily. After all, that is what is meant by fiction.
Especially in 3-volume (or longer) novels.
Well, I knew that -- I mean, I just want to see how it plays out.
Plus, I'm kind of impressed that the author has the sheer unmitigated temerity to decide he can write Christ, as a character in the novel.
Here's an article about Glorious Appearing in the NY Times.