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6/9/2025, 11:51:36 AM
>>24453508
B&N employee here again. Understandable. Most are absolute slop. I particularly can't stand how many Romance and YA Fiction books have the identical art style. That blocky, bright, low-detail shit. Young teens will see the covers to explicit Romance books and think they're age appropriate due to the art style on the cover. I frequently suggest parents flip through the book real quick as it isn't just some cute and quirky love story, but a book about some slut sucking and fucking her way through a coastal town after her boyfriend broke up with her or something.
It's funny.... the parent will flip through the book, immediately see how explicit it is, ask where their daughter heard about this book. The kid will tell them their friend's name and it immediately makes sense to the parent because that other kid is a slut or raised by trash parents, etc. That or Tik Tok. Depressing shit.
Lots of the covers suck now. I'm partial to the newer Penguin Signature Editions, though. I think a number of them were really well done. The price point is unbeatable for new books as well. Gotta keep a little faith in the book world. Lots of shit and slop, but there are lots of true readers out there as well. I'm not some incredibly well-read guy, but I love books and it's still fun to work around them, even if a lot of pozzed slop takes main stage now.
B&N employee here again. Understandable. Most are absolute slop. I particularly can't stand how many Romance and YA Fiction books have the identical art style. That blocky, bright, low-detail shit. Young teens will see the covers to explicit Romance books and think they're age appropriate due to the art style on the cover. I frequently suggest parents flip through the book real quick as it isn't just some cute and quirky love story, but a book about some slut sucking and fucking her way through a coastal town after her boyfriend broke up with her or something.
It's funny.... the parent will flip through the book, immediately see how explicit it is, ask where their daughter heard about this book. The kid will tell them their friend's name and it immediately makes sense to the parent because that other kid is a slut or raised by trash parents, etc. That or Tik Tok. Depressing shit.
Lots of the covers suck now. I'm partial to the newer Penguin Signature Editions, though. I think a number of them were really well done. The price point is unbeatable for new books as well. Gotta keep a little faith in the book world. Lots of shit and slop, but there are lots of true readers out there as well. I'm not some incredibly well-read guy, but I love books and it's still fun to work around them, even if a lot of pozzed slop takes main stage now.
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