[bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating books you hate
- From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:28:20 -0800
Hi, Shannon, I'm thinking if the book makes you cringe, then it's better you
give it to somebody who has a stronger stomach. How bad is the dialog? I've
read books which had an overuse of adverbs and a lot of purple prose in the
sex scenes and I read the story because I ordered the thing and chose to
finish it, but those purple passages made me say something like: "Oh, come
on! It can't be like that! Seeing eternity, my eye! Oh, I grant you they
liked it a lot, but really!" You get the drift? I've read stuff by David
Eddings and he is a great storyteller, but I have issues with how he makes
his characters speak to each other. I'm picky. If you've read Agatha
Christie, I hate her dialog and prefer the dialog written by Ngaio Marsh,
Margery Allingham, Dorothy L. Sayers (even though Lord Peter Wimsey sounds
affected which I think was the fashion at the time), and Josephine Tey. I
hope you like your next book. I haven't read messages from you before, so if
you're knew to this list, it's very nice to meet you. Would you consider
writing me off list? I'm a semi-green proofreader and it would be nice to do
general schmoozing or talk shop. Regards, Kim Friedman.
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Shannon Curry
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 9:09 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Validating books you hate
Hi, all,
Not owning a scanner, I've been dipping into validating books.
Thankfully, the ones I've picked so far have been good scans and generally
easy to work with.
However, recently I checked out a book that had been awaiting validation
since early December. All was going well--the scan looked awesome and I was
able to fix a few formatting issues. But I couldn't stand it. The writing
was awful, the dialogue contrived, and after stopping and starting it three
times, I finally gave up in despair and released it for someone else.
Does anyone else ever have this problem? And now I have awful validator
guilt. I mean, it's been up since early December, and the poor submitter
probably really wants his/her credits since s/he worked really hard at
scanning the book.
So I guess my question is... how long do books sit unloved and unvalidated
before someone from Bookshare does it or the system automatically rejects
them? And am I the only one that suffers from this insane guilt? (OK...
probably I am, but hey, what's the Internet for if not for airing our
neuroses in public?)
Shannon
Who is off to find a book she will hopefully like more
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