Still, by the end, I feel like I escaped prison somehow and wanted to find a good book to remind myself what good writing is like. :D
I experienced that same exact feeling yesterday. My current book is from a big publishing house (Penguin) by a skilled writer. Such a night-and-day difference! Even though the story is not to my tastes at all (I think it was written for preteen girls...) I'm enjoying it just because the author writes well.
OTOH, it got me lost in wikipedia for several hours reading up on all the historical concepts she talked about that I either had never heard of or didn't know much about, so...plus?
That's a good bonus! I love it when a book either teaches me stuff or leads to me researching it myself. It's only too bad the rest of your series didn't deliver...
I think I'm going to start adding a stat to my end of the year summary posts: How many self-published books I read. That should be interesting to compare to how many books I gave up on -- both numbers went up a lot this year, and I bet the two facts are related.
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Date: 2015-07-30 05:13 pm (UTC)I experienced that same exact feeling yesterday. My current book is from a big publishing house (Penguin) by a skilled writer. Such a night-and-day difference! Even though the story is not to my tastes at all (I think it was written for preteen girls...) I'm enjoying it just because the author writes well.
OTOH, it got me lost in wikipedia for several hours reading up on all the historical concepts she talked about that I either had never heard of or didn't know much about, so...plus?
That's a good bonus! I love it when a book either teaches me stuff or leads to me researching it myself. It's only too bad the rest of your series didn't deliver...
I think I'm going to start adding a stat to my end of the year summary posts: How many self-published books I read. That should be interesting to compare to how many books I gave up on -- both numbers went up a lot this year, and I bet the two facts are related.