Review: No Excuse For This Book
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 12 4, 2013
The downside of self-publishing online is that there is no control over quality.Let me start with the story: Boy comes home from marines. Boy sees football quarterback (always quarterbacks, aren't they? Are there no other positions in high school football?) who used to torment him. Marine leaves bar, quarterback is outside, grabs him and kisses him, so what does he do? Punches him in the face, of course (even though he's 100% gay). Which, in turn, causes both of them to become sexually aroused.The next time, they fist-fight and wrestle until they have sex again.The next time, the Marine tells him not to show up without rope. So he ties his hands, and they have sex again...The next time, the quarterback happily outs himself and asks the Marine to be his boyfriend.Yep, that's the story. I'm not sure whether it is intended to be third-rate bondage + S&M; or whether the author truly believes that's how masculine gay men relate to one another - on a basis of violence and domination. Either way, it's a waste of pages.And I'm so glad this book was free, so I don't have to ask for a refund, which I would have, because either the author and editor read at a third-grade level or the book wasn't edited at all.Examples:1) No clue how to make words plural:"... all those ass kicking's" ("ass-kickings")" ...took off his button fly's." ("button-fly jeans")2) Entirely inappropriate words and typos:"...if I knew it was him was then, I would have.""...just as good a chance to hit Brad as his Bobby." ("hit", not "his")3) A serious problem with tense:"...as he bend down"4) Incorrect words:"...he drug his tongue..." ("dragged"?)5) Accidental negatives (figure this one out!):"...had no doubt the guy wouldn't show, and when he did..."And to add insult to injury, cowboys in North Carolina? Farmers, sure. Cowboys? Somehow I doubt it. Chase would more likely be wearing a John Deere cap than a Stetson.To authors and editors: If you don't have enough respect for your readers or your own work, please don't post it for all the world to see how little you care.Sorry, I like to encourage authors, especially new ones, but there is NO excuse for the execrable editing of this book (if there was any) and the waste of so many readers' time on a work of such poor quality.P.S.: To Amazon: what is with the "locations" in this book? It shows 12,000+ locations, but only a little over 100 pages. Anything over 5,000 locations is usually a pretty hefty tome. This had what, a location for every word?