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[Anonymous No.18675209]

Let’s say you are reading a novel.
You notice that in this novel the only punctuation marks used are periods, commas, and quotation marks.
Now add to this the fact that the novel is by an unknown author and an unknown publisher, has a noticeable number of typos as well as misused words and overly simplistic metaphors, similes, and references—simple to the point of making you cringe. The book is also 1200 pages.

Knowing all this,
Would you question the seriousness of the author?
Assuming there is no clear stylistic intent to the aforementioned criticisms of the writing, could you go so far as to say that the novel that has no literary merit whatsoever?

In addition:
You also found out about this book through a “booktuber” who usually reads really good books that line up with a lot of /lit/‘s favorites, and recommended this book with high praise.
You go to the goodreads page of this novel and see that there are only about a dozen reviews, most of them very good.
One of the reviews is a 5-Star review from the booktuber. It’s not a very long review, it just says it is good and he recommends it.
You see his review has a few “likes”
You notice that one of the “likes” shares the same first name as the author.
You click on this man’s profile and come to realize that this is the author of said novel.
There is also a second profile on the Goodreads review page that comments on negative reviews with very impassioned defenses of the book. In one comment admits to being the publisher.

With this added context, might it be reasonable to believe that you were scammed into buying a shitty book by a seemingly honest person who was shilling a shitty book as part of some incestuous kickback deal that he agreed to upon being contacted by the author and/or publisher?

[Anonymous No.18675451]

Which book, boi?

[Anonymous No.18675477]

>>18675209
is this that shitkickers book?

[Anonymous No.18675510]

>>18675209
This is too long for an opening post and too short for a novel. You need to pick a form and stick to it, anon.

[Anonymous No.18675525]

>>18675510
based

[Anonymous No.18675670]

>>18675451
>>18675477

[Anonymous No.18677266]

>>18675209
>the only punctuation marks used are periods, commas, and quotation marks.
Why is this important at all