DISQUS

GoodWordEditing.com: How Well Read Are Acquisitions Editors?

  • L.L. Barkat · 2 years ago
    It shows the power of context, doesn't it? And that in itself is an interesting topic to consider.
  • Marcus · 2 years ago
    L.L., you are the master of the two sentence comment. Awesome.
  • Real Live Preacher · 2 years ago
    Well, that's always the situation with classics, isn't it? You have to go back into their worldview to enjoy them. And that's fun, but probably not something I want to do with everything I read. Our best stuff will one day be classic, and it probably won't fit either.
  • Every Square Inch · 2 years ago
    Rather than defend the acq. editors, I would hope that they and anyone in a position of critic or evaluator would be sobered and humbled.

    LL's point is also spot on...context - historical, cultural, circumstantial all matter in our evaluation.
  • Marcus · 2 years ago
    The thing about a classic is that it speaks to people in many different contexts, though. Right? Why is that so hard to market, though?
  • Eve · 2 years ago
    Probably because it used to speak to so many people, but no longer does.

    Why?
    I think because
    a)many no longer read them
    b)the language is difficult for many to wade through and
    c)there are so many new books out there that are enticing all of us.

    Just a thought, of course. :)
  • Marcus · 2 years ago
    So, Eve, are you suggesting that "classics" only sell well because the educational system has functioned as a marketing vehicle to force students to buy books they never read? : )

    I actually like some of them. Pride and Prejudice, for instance.