The book I am supposed to read for my book club. It has every cliche about self-published books in spades. Pure vanity press from run-on paragraphs introducing each new character with their entire biography to the main character staring in the mirror and describing his twinkling eyes and cleft chin.
This isn't a new trend - and self publishing is really attracting some decent writers - just vanity publishing by a local doctor who is writing a police procedural knowing nothing about police. And a streak of hate-filled misogyny from the mutilated corpses of women, to the complete absence of any woman who isn't a fat sow in a stinky trailer shoving chocolate in her mouth.
Now I have to go to my book club and temper my venting...it will be hard.
Umm, I like the graphic novel phase. To me, it's not that different from the Fotonovels* they had for Grease, etc. or the comic book adaptations that would be later collected for the trade paperback. If we include Jurassic Park the novel and its film merchandise, then it DOES have an adult book, children's book, picture book and comic book. I miss when films would have juvenile AND adult adaptations so I was happy that TFA bought that back
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I'm not talking about the easy reader versions so much as these Non-Fiction titles that they adapt for teens and it's like, teens would be able to handle the regular version of the book. My fear is that these "young reader's editions" are sanitized, which bothers me
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They do still do novelizations of the movies for kids No, I was specifically referring to what used to be done for films appealing to younger viewers and adults where there are junior novelizations AND adult novelizations of the same film. I find those more interesting because you would think they would be the same but they're not especially depending on which script they received and how they interpreted things. Heck, the junior novelization for TFA is more gut wrenching than the adult one! TFA was the first time I had seen both novelizations available in a long time...although being published much later was annoying...but not as annoying as Marvel's tactic of only printing half the film in their novelizations.
though I always find it hilarious when the movie is based on a book so the novelization is based on a movie that was based on a book...).Again, I love these because they often provide insight into the filming process. They're usually off the shooting script or an even earlier one so in the pre-internet era, this was the only
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Sorry to butt in… I knew about the Bloomsbury editions, but what are the Scholastic "adult" cover Harry Potter books? (I collect cover variants of Sorcerer's Stone.)
I will read just about anything. And I enjoy scifi/fantasy as much as the next person. But does every book now require a werwolf or vampire to be printed?
That being said there is a wonderful (in a slightly guilty pleasure sort of way) self published series with vampires that I've read several times now that I adore. But it's the exception.
I think it is frustrating when you can tell the vampire/werewolf/angel/mermaid-whatever was put into the story *just* to sell the books and not part of the author's original intentions. Also, along those same lines, when they force authors to make a trilogy.
Your self-published person wrote what they wanted so that's why it works as an exception. :)
I agree with both pet peeves! I've never really gotten the point of doing the same story in comic form. I guess it's an opportunity to sell it twice? I mean, if the art is amazing then it's cool, but usually it's fairly standard.
My pet peeve is YA covers that all look the same, but actually I've seen more good ones recently... But for some time they all looked similar to Twilight and it was so irritating!
Yeah, a lot of the artwork just looks rushed or manga-fied for the purpose of reaching manga fans. It's not like some amazing graphic novel author and artist teamed up because they LOVE the books and wanted to do their own take.
haha I've put books on display and had to do a double take because the covers are so similar. There's actually a book on the adult shelf now that has THE EXACT SAME PHOTO on it's cover as a YA book. **facepalm**
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This isn't a new trend - and self publishing is really attracting some decent writers - just vanity publishing by a local doctor who is writing a police procedural knowing nothing about police. And a streak of hate-filled misogyny from the mutilated corpses of women, to the complete absence of any woman who isn't a fat sow in a stinky trailer shoving chocolate in her mouth.
Now I have to go to my book club and temper my venting...it will be hard.
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No, I was specifically referring to what used to be done for films appealing to younger viewers and adults where there are junior novelizations AND adult novelizations of the same film. I find those more interesting because you would think they would be the same but they're not especially depending on which script they received and how they interpreted things. Heck, the junior novelization for TFA is more gut wrenching than the adult one! TFA was the first time I had seen both novelizations available in a long time...although being published much later was annoying...but not as annoying as Marvel's tactic of only printing half the film in their novelizations.
though I always find it hilarious when the movie is based on a book so the novelization is based on a movie that was based on a book...).Again, I love these because they often provide insight into the filming process. They're usually off the shooting script or an even earlier one so in the pre-internet era, this was the only ( ... )
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That being said there is a wonderful (in a slightly guilty pleasure sort of way) self published series with vampires that I've read several times now that I adore. But it's the exception.
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Your self-published person wrote what they wanted so that's why it works as an exception. :)
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My pet peeve is YA covers that all look the same, but actually I've seen more good ones recently... But for some time they all looked similar to Twilight and it was so irritating!
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haha I've put books on display and had to do a double take because the covers are so similar. There's actually a book on the adult shelf now that has THE EXACT SAME PHOTO on it's cover as a YA book. **facepalm**
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My peeve would probably be the insane number of YA supernatural books.
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