DOWN WITH BOOKS!

For the love of &@#$ save our forests! It is just sickening watching majestic trees crash to the ground, to see their grand beauty twisted and smashed, and to know that their final destination is being turned into books.

Yes books! Ah but how can I, an avid bibliophile and pursuer, purchaser and gloating owner of books, propound an argument against my own true love? Well I’ll try and explain, perhaps I’ll do it with stammering fingers and little eloquence but hopefully with a touch of drama and sparkle.

TO BEGIN, DOWN WITH BOOKS THAT ARE:

TRASH: come off it, if I dumped a bag of six day old garbage on your floor, you would think I was a little strange. And if that was the ONLY thing I could think to bring you, you would think I was insane. Is trash writing the only thing YOU bring to the table?

POORLY WRITTEN: Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

BOOKS LACKING IN ALL THAT MAKES A BOOK GOOD: That is pretty broad I know but there are not a few shining examples of such literature in our world. The Babysitters Club for one...*shudder*... or almost any of the “tweeny” or “teen” books out there, plus the greater part of the adult fiction as well. Plot lines that have been done a billion times before, cookie cutter characters, mutilated English....and so much more.

DRIVEL FILLED: This is huge in the “Christian” section. Sappy, ludicrous and down-right idiotic for the most part, this genre should quietly fade out of the picture, like an aging soap star. Actually the really ugly bit here is, Christians should be the ones writing wonderful, inspired and beautiful books, not just so much mush and poppycock.

OVER SEXED AND UTTERLY UNINTERESTING: I’ve thrown away two books this year for being this very thing. If an author has to revert to overt sex and “bribe” the reader into staying with the book that is a good sign that you should burn or chuck the book. Besides the glaring rule of “whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, if anything is excellent or praise worthy think about such things...”. Not to mention usually those books are so boring they will constantly be suffering from water damage due to sleep induced drooling.

HISTORICAL FICTION THAT: Claims to speak, behave, think, relate and act as the person in their chosen time period would have, only to ignore completely all social norms and actions that character would have had. In short, superimposing a modern day mind set on them and forcing it to be a mouth piece for the authors chosen soap box.

These my friends are a few key problems with the books being written by my generation, in my not so humble opinion. And it really burns me up at the thought of all those poor trees pouring into mills to be turned into so much refuse, sadly it would be of more use to humanity if they were just turned into paper towels or something.

Just stalk into your local Mac-Bookstore, glance around, glistening and shiny covers gawp at you from ever shelf, ninety percent were written in a week and will be read and forgotten even faster, whole series that didn’t exist three days ago spring like cockroaches from the pens of would be authors. Each eager to out do the other in the baseness of material or characters there in. Quite frankly I can’t even NAME any of these books since.....I make it a point of never reading, buying or touching them.