Wifetheif
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I enjoy the podcast 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back. The podcast evaluates bad books, sometimes self-published but not always. The podcast gets its name from the page count of Ernest Cline's "Ready Player One." A book heavily praised when it was released but now is viewed as problematical and dreadfully written. It is amazing how bad a supposedly professionally edited book can be. The podcast has done all of Cline's books and found them equally lacking. Currently the podcast is breaking down Cline's fourth book "Bridge to Bat City." This book, supposedly edited by an award winning professional editor, has the word "Suddenly" appear twice in a single sentence and THREE times in the span of three sentences! Stuff like that should be caught by the author in their first read through. That something so egregious can make it all the way to press through the proofreading and editing process is astounding. Reminder, this is not a self-published opus. It was churned out by Little Brown. I can only conclude that lots of us are better, or at least a lot more careful, than the professionals occupying prime spots in our local Barnes and Noble. That means there is hope for lots of us OR the current state of publishing is so woeful there is NO hope for us. I'm not sure which.
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