these days when i walk into a book shop there is nothing worth reading, publishers are churning out the equivalent of muzak, it's dire straits, just the typical female, black or minority, lgbqt superficial stories with predictability and one dimensional characters that are so politically correct the novel can only have one outcome. it's dull and boring and very sad. all the books that had an impact upon me, the ones that stood the test of time, the writers that were great and still are, the novels that provoke and stimulate deep thinking would never get published today. people say don't buy from amazon but amazon does stock self published work, novels that are rejected by publishers or that are to controversial for them.  

to get published you need marketing, a team of market researchers who understand genre, who can twist and shape your novel towards a YA market cos that's where the money is, they remove the reality from the novel, the sexism, the racism, the tension and replace it with a more agreeable kind. homophobia or anti male, pro islam (remember all books published about islam have to be approved by the islamic council) and the result is very vanilla, very safe politically correct and mostly lack any meaningful consideration apart from inclusion, diverts and equity, which are great qualities but turned into some sort of weird marxist ideological propaganda. fuck that! 

gimme some truth.