With the 50 Shades hype slowly burning down, only likely to be re-kindled when they pull a movie out of it, I find myself waiting to see what abomination of literature will be hoisted onto the pedestal of worship for the masses. As I was thinking about the possibilities of what will be next in terms of genre, setting, plot and such, I asked myself the question I'll ask everyone:
Many of us gnash our teeth and wail about the poor quality of the recent titles such as Twilight, 50 Shades, etc. We direct rage at the books and the authors. But who's REALLY to blame for this? After all the fact that these things exist tells us it's not terribly difficult to get published. There's dozens of books that are variations on the Twilight theme and likely going to be many more that are variations on the 50 shades theme in the future.
The Authors merely wrote what they wanted to write. (unless this was their evil plan to take over the world without being thwarted by those meddlesome Joes) The books, for however bad they are, merely exist. They don't force people to read them or like them. If we're going to be outraged about awful things, I'd say it's best to be outraged in the right direction. But who do you point the finger at for all this?
Many of us gnash our teeth and wail about the poor quality of the recent titles such as Twilight, 50 Shades, etc. We direct rage at the books and the authors. But who's REALLY to blame for this? After all the fact that these things exist tells us it's not terribly difficult to get published. There's dozens of books that are variations on the Twilight theme and likely going to be many more that are variations on the 50 shades theme in the future.
The Authors merely wrote what they wanted to write. (unless this was their evil plan to take over the world without being thwarted by those meddlesome Joes) The books, for however bad they are, merely exist. They don't force people to read them or like them. If we're going to be outraged about awful things, I'd say it's best to be outraged in the right direction. But who do you point the finger at for all this?