2013 Books

[wesleysgirl]

1. The Walk by Lee Goldberg. What an awful way to start a year of reading. Amazon recommended this book to me, probably because I've bought/read a lot of post-apoc stuff. Netflix must have taught me the bad habit of just adding whatever is recommended (and often regretting it later) because I added it without the author's name "clicking" for me - this is the guy who bashes fanfic but is paid to write TV show episodes. I didn't realize until a full chapter into the book, when I was wincing and cringing about the truly awful writing - the punctuation errors are frequent and horrid - that I realized who this guy is. So, yeah. Avoid this book like a post-apocalyptic plague. TERRIBLE.

2. The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks by Max Brooks. Graphic novel, but more like graphic short stories. Good, but you might as well get it from the library than pay full price for it. :-)

Comments

[tabaqui]

The number of people leaving five-star reviews at Amazon make me weep for humanity.

[wesleysgirl.livejournal.com]

The punctuation was giving me a headache by page 8! Examples:

"The whole world doesn't revolve around television." Beth said, followed by one of her dismissive sighs.

and

"You dropped something," she motioned to the floor with a slight nod of her head.

and those are both on page 8. And there are so many more. Ugh.

[tabaqui]

......i thought 'pro' publishing had editors? Wtf.

[wesleysgirl.livejournal.com]

I mean, I can totally forgive the occasional error -- even with multiple editors, little stuff slips through. But generally I'll notice an error or two in a whole book, not dozens per chapter! Eek.

[tabaqui]

Wow, yeah, that is *way* too many.