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[telophase]

I read Gillian Flynn's thriller Sharp Objects: A Novel from the library. Verdict: didn't like it as much as Dark Places: A Novel. The protagonist wasn't as sympathetic and the ending was telegraphed a bit, I felt, although it was compelling enough to get me to keep reading.

Now I just need to read Gone Girl: A Novel, although there are 42 people on the library's waiting list for the ebook so it may be a while.

P.S.: They're novels. In case you were under the impression that they were fruit salads.

Comments

[yhlee]

What! I no can has fruit salad???

[telophase]

Alas, if you check these books out of the library expecting fruit salad, you will not receive tasty apples, bananas, and oranges, but instead get dark psychological thrillers. It's an easy mistake, so we should all be grateful to the publishers for clearing it up once and for all.

[torachan]

Haha, I hate when "a novel" is added to the title.

[telophase]

I'm guessing it's an attempt to disguise genre as lit.

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

Not poems, not lyrics, but - novels. :D

I thought the point of a library ebook was - ? Okay, color me naive.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Publishers want to treat ebooks like regular books when it comes to libraries, so the libraries license a certain number of copies and that's all they can have circulating at one time. Some of them even limit the number of times one book can circulate to, say, 25, and if you go over that amount, you have to license it again. Which mimics a regular book - a well-circulated copy can fall apart after a number of readings so you'd have to buy the book again.

Whether or not this model is totally fair is another question entirely.