http://booksquare.com/hubris-meets-the-critics/ Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Mon, 21 May 2012 06:15:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://booksquare.com/hubris-meets-the-critics/comment-page-1/#comment-277 Lorra Tue, 12 Oct 2004 21:20:12 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2004/10/12/701/#comment-277 Admittedly, I read mostly thrillers since they seldom require that I develop a decent vocabulary. Recently, I tried plowing through Catherine Coulter's "Blind Side" believing a "New York Times Bestseller" had to have merit. Wrong! This book is proof that publishing lots and lots of books doesn't necessarily make you a writer. The thing was a pile of illiterate garbage -- so bad, I almost picked up a work of literary fiction. Yipes! Admittedly, I read mostly thrillers since they seldom require that I develop a decent vocabulary. Recently, I tried plowing through Catherine Coulter’s “Blind Side” believing a “New York Times Bestseller” had to have merit.
Wrong!
This book is proof that publishing lots and lots of books doesn’t necessarily make you a writer. The thing was a pile of illiterate garbage — so bad, I almost picked up a work of literary fiction. Yipes!

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