Mate Wrote a Book -Expected it to Be Ignored...

blatantrereg

blatantrereg wrote: »

My cousin's bf wrote a book ages ago. It was published as a free audiobook online. What little attention it garnered ridiculed it completely at best, or were simply appalled. I listened to some of it and it really was awful. Laughably bad.

I looked it up just now. It was recently published by an imprint of a major publisher which is trying to be trendy it seems. It's in a nice cover, has a compelling blurb that is far better written than the book itself, and even has a short promo film with decent production values. Now it seems to have received a good few reviews, and they are a bit mixed - but range from raving about it to cautious criticism of it as a failed experiment.

It's still utter sh!t though. It's purely people responding to the presentation. They think it is clever because they are told it is clever - even though they are being told this by the person selling it to them. Thierry Guetta style impact.

There must be a word for this phenomenon.

ayn rand would be over the moon

dxhound2005

dxhound2005 wrote: »

I was at a meeting tonight and a man mentioned in passing that a certain book was the second most published item in the world. I looked at google and it maybe the first or the third but it is certainly up there. I was surprised when he said what it was.

hidinginthebush wrote: »

What was it?

The IKEA catalogue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA_Catalogue

wilkie2006

blatantrereg wrote: »

My cousin's bf wrote a book ages ago. It was published as a free audiobook online. What little attention it garnered ridiculed it completely at best, or were simply appalled. I listened to some of it and it really was awful. Laughably bad.

I looked it up just now. It was recently published by an imprint of a major publisher which is trying to be trendy it seems. It's in a nice cover, has a compelling blurb that is far better written than the book itself, and even has a short promo film with decent production values. Now it seems to have received a good few reviews, and they are a bit mixed - but range from raving about it to cautious criticism of it as a failed experiment.

It's still utter sh!t though. It's purely people responding to the presentation. They think it is clever because they are told it is clever - even though they are being told this by the person selling it to them. Thierry Guetta style impact.

There must be a word for this phenomenon.

Domo230 wrote: »

The Da Vinci code effect.

We don't think "The Da Vinci Code" is clever, though... do we? :eek:

Feeona

I don't know if any of you read 'The Telephone Book', but a friend of mine is involved in it

Greentopia

I wrote a book once. It sold literally tens of copies and with the proceeds I bought a nice gaff in Dhaka with a view of the Ganges outside my front door. LIVIN' THE DREAM!!

Deus Ex Machina

wilkie2006 wrote: »

We don't think "The Da Vinci Code" is clever, though... do we? :eek:

We do in the blue fuck think it is.

Lando Griffin

I think you should take your literal friend off out of AH, we dont like ye reading lot round here.

Gummy Panda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jYRuo_BnVw

Cavehill Red

randy hickey wrote: »

I am NEVER going round to your house for dinner!:eek:

Not even tempted by my special sauce?

Greentopia

Lando Griffin wrote: »

I think you should take your literal friend off out of AH, we dont like ye reading lot round here.

Reminds me of an entry I read for that well 'ard kip Sunderland in the book Crap Towns where one of it's inhabitants said-...I had a landlord who once told me: "We don't like outsiders, us. A lot of people want that university closed."

:eek:

efb

The Bible???

pavb2

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mitty

Sindri

I wrote a book once. It was about an orphaned wizard boy fighting the forces of evil.

I called it 'Orphans Of Doom'. Subtitled 'The Mystery Of An Unexpected Dilemma'.

The publishing company rehashed it as Harry Potter and I was in the business.:cool: