You know lately I find myself in love with Dean Koontz.... it is really sad, but seriously.... I do. I usually find myself hating his kind of writer. It's something about the mass production of books that gets me. Five books a year is really too many to be REAL writing. Sell outs. I feel like they are naturally talented and they are abusing it - like they are writing to the millions-of-over-romanticized-women that they know will buy that shit. If they can bust out more than 3 books a year and make them all best sellers, they are only skating on the edge of their talent. And by me buying into this garbage, I feel cheated, fucked.
That is why I looooove used book stores and libraries. It takes out most of that "multi-million dollar profit" feeling out of it. The more I know that the writer of a book made little if no money off the selling of their book, the more I enjoy it. Really.... it's weird.
Enough ranting, I'm done.
That is why I looooove used book stores and libraries. It takes out most of that "multi-million dollar profit" feeling out of it. The more I know that the writer of a book made little if no money off the selling of their book, the more I enjoy it. Really.... it's weird.
Enough ranting, I'm done.
akathisia:
I used to really enjoy those types of books. Now i'd almost rather not read at all. i can see the appeal of them though, since i am impatient sometimes i like to read books that are a little bti retardiculous. I mean, i think i like what might be called "good books" as well, but anything difficult seems to take me over a month, so every once in a while when i want to read i will read something totally cheezy like steven king or dean koontz. When i was in middle school i read VC Andrews, which i hate now, but it is sort of interesting just how BAD the wrinting is and how sick a lot of the stuff in those stories is.