This link was shared on Lemmy just recently about this book. I watched some of the persons other videos, and though we have different tastes it seems like they can identify “bad” books.
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hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 5 days ago
Gee. God beware anyone answer the one interesting question. And that’s whether the book is any good.
I mean it’s not surprising to me how random internet people disagree. They always do… But we could just ask a professional?! Book critic is a real job. They could tell us within a few hours if the book is any good. Or full of common story tropes. And “sudden plot twists” like when I tried writing a story with AI 😅 And whether it’s going anywhere, or compares to other books which have some artistic quality or meaning to them.
MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 5 days ago
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 5 days ago
I mean, lots of people thought 50 Shades of Grey was good. But no one I’ve run into in the kink community. Owner/pet is difficult to write even if you’re familiar with the subject material; absent that, it’s just another unrealistic portrayal for vanilla audiences.
I’ve lost respect for the NYT, but if their analysis is it was LLM-written, I’m satisfied enough that there were professionals on the scene. Whether it’s any good is irrelevant to the problem at hand.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 5 days ago
Hmmh. I mean there’s several questions here. Maybe I’d read it if ChatGPT were able to write really good smut 😆 So it remains one of my questions.
But yeah. Not only NYT, the Reddit person who wrote a long post about it, also seems to know what they’re doing.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 5 days ago
Unlike, apparently, the “author”! 🤣
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 5 days ago
Ba dum tss…
By the way, the 3h YouTube video answers my question. It is poorly written. Already the cover art was stolen. And apparently there’s not a single thing right about this book.