The book industry has become like Hollywood. Modern editors have become producers, who ask writers to write books based on somebody else's ideas. As you might understand, you can't write a good book if you are payed to write it, because it's simply not your own idea, therefore you can't formulate it correctly. The three examples are The Hunger Games, Divergent and The 5th Wave. The Hunger Games was not really bad, because the hired writer was at least able to create a decent plot without logic fallacies. The two other books are really awful, written by two idiots. Divergent is missing the faction of artists for example, imagine how demented the writer must be to forget about artists. The 5th Wave writer not only was unable to create normal characters, but also has no idea what the 5th wave is. Now that the book industry has become like Hollywood, where producers tell writers to write not their own stories, obviously we won't be able to have good books written by people who want to tell their own stories.
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PeeNutButtHair ago
I've found that the book industry is saturated by mediocrity. Books now are watered down and lack depth. They feel like "young adult" novels but marketed to adults. We are stuck having to go back to the previous generation for anything stimulating, which is unfortunate because the world is moving at an exponentially increasing pace, and it would be nice if some actual writers gave us something current.
Joe10jo ago
It’d like this so as not to offend any of the readers, ie the current state of any form of entertainment of science journals for that matter is the equivalent of expecting to see Eddie Murphy do a comedy routine and that it’s gonna be hilarious if he can’t make fun of us or use the F or N word.
Same difference. Everything is being watered down and repetitive (think Miley Cyrus or Rihanna songs) to keep us from thinking and so as to usher in the NWO.