The book industry has become like Hollywood. Modern editors have become producers, who ask writers to write books based on somebody else's ideas. As you might understand, you can't write a good book if you are payed to write it, because it's simply not your own idea, therefore you can't formulate it correctly. The three examples are The Hunger Games, Divergent and The 5th Wave. The Hunger Games was not really bad, because the hired writer was at least able to create a decent plot without logic fallacies. The two other books are really awful, written by two idiots. Divergent is missing the faction of artists for example, imagine how demented the writer must be to forget about artists. The 5th Wave writer not only was unable to create normal characters, but also has no idea what the 5th wave is. Now that the book industry has become like Hollywood, where producers tell writers to write not their own stories, obviously we won't be able to have good books written by people who want to tell their own stories.
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[–] GoatsnHoes1 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
The only new books I read are from Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Most new books are terrible, with all this cheating wives/husbands and some surprise rape thrown in there for some reason.
Old books do a fine job of telling stories without some random rape bullshit thrown in. I feel like the authors do it on purpose, maybe they'll think more people will read it? I don't know, but it ought to say on the back if it's a rapey book. I don't sign up to read about rape.
The good thing about books, though, is you can delve into the classics. Right now I am enjoying Isaac Asimov. It's a shame there's not a lot of good new books right now, but libraries still rock with older books.
[–] ardvarcus 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I used to read Preston and Child for entertainment, but lately I've lost interest. I can't stomach any more Pendergast novels. I'm finding it very hard to find fiction that can hold my interest. An exception is Cormac McCarthy, who is a great writer -- our greatest living writer in my opinion. As for the crap that is being churned out by the truckload, I can't even begin to read it.
[–] GoatsnHoes1 ago
Yeah I also got sick of pendergast. I like the gideon crew novels but then I'm not too sure how new they are. I'll be sure to check out Cormac McCarthy, thanks for the tip.