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Well that seems like a waste. Why not give them to your local second-hand shop, put them up to pick up for free on your local small ads website, donate them to
by lucb1e 3y ago
Well that seems like a waste. Why not give them to your local second-hand shop, put them up to pick up for free on your local small ads website, donate them to a library, give away to friend, or anything besides throwing them in the garbage?!
If you wanted to read it, surely someone else wants to as well. Then they can see for themselves that it's crap, without needing to have a new book produced for that.
> Maybe I should just stop reading random books
Sounds like a good idea if the trash can is your star rating for a significant fraction of them
- jacobwilliamroy 3y agoI understand there is a market for these books. There has to be for someone to bother writing hundreds of pages and then for someone else to invest in editing and publishing and making cover art. That's why I'm not naming specific names, because I know there are a lot of people involved in making these things and I'm genuinely happy for them. I already buy these books from goodwill but I guess I should just give them back on the off chance that this stuff actually connects with someone.
- roywiggins 3y agoAvid mystery (and romance) readers just burn through books. A lot of them aren't that great, but they're designed to pass the time, not stand out as works of art. So that's why there are so many of them, and why they're often kind of crap. Like sitcoms, or TV police procedurals. The standards aren't that high because people just want something that's pretty okay in a familiar style. Of course there are writers who write in any genre and produce really great stuff, but you're not likely to find them by picking books at random from Goodwill, by Sturgeon's law (90% of everything is crap) alone.