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thistlechaserFar World by J. Scott Savage
Rating: Disliked (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)
I started a new book this evening, one I bought nearly a year ago. The writing was dull and predictable, so I came back to my computer and did some checking. Unfortunately apparently I hadn't done enough research to see if it was self-published or not...
Checking the publisher listed on the Amazon page lead me to the Shadow Mountain Publishing's site, and poking around it (because sometimes an author will set up a "publisher" for only their own books, to try to hide that it's self-published), I found this on their Submission Guide page:
"Shadow Mountain publishes and promotes a variety of books, all of which reflect the values espoused by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."
Man, I sure do wish I had seen that before spending $10 on this book! (Even though it was a year ago, back when I had money to spend on books.)
Even with my initial opinion on the writing, I considered continuing to read and giving it another chance. But, even if this book doesn't have religious messages/themes in it, I'd still be looking for them and suspecting them at every turn, so I think I'm just going to delete it unread. Sure does pain me to waste $10 though...
Rating: Disliked (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)
I started a new book this evening, one I bought nearly a year ago. The writing was dull and predictable, so I came back to my computer and did some checking. Unfortunately apparently I hadn't done enough research to see if it was self-published or not...
Checking the publisher listed on the Amazon page lead me to the Shadow Mountain Publishing's site, and poking around it (because sometimes an author will set up a "publisher" for only their own books, to try to hide that it's self-published), I found this on their Submission Guide page:
"Shadow Mountain publishes and promotes a variety of books, all of which reflect the values espoused by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."
Man, I sure do wish I had seen that before spending $10 on this book! (Even though it was a year ago, back when I had money to spend on books.)
Even with my initial opinion on the writing, I considered continuing to read and giving it another chance. But, even if this book doesn't have religious messages/themes in it, I'd still be looking for them and suspecting them at every turn, so I think I'm just going to delete it unread. Sure does pain me to waste $10 though...
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Date: 2016-03-23 11:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-03-23 12:56 pm (UTC)The only books I have seen from that type of publishing house are the church approved romance novels. The covers generally have wholesome, well groomed young men with square jaws and short hair, with doe eyed women displaying absolutely no cleavage whatsoever. They usually have some rattling around the free library shelves down at the cafe, because nobody wants them, haha.
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Date: 2016-03-23 02:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-03-23 02:52 pm (UTC)And ha! I can't imagine why someone wouldn't want a romance book like that. :P