Paul Auster, one of my all time favourite authors ever ! Passed away sadly in 2024 
I’m reading moon palace now
The satanic verses by salman rushdie. Probably because of all the stories and happenings surrounding the book I expected more because so far it’s a pretty boring read.
Maybe this post would be better suited at the random thoughts topic, but this is probably where people could answer this question/share their experiences:
Lately, I often read books that very obviously lack professional proofreading. That mainly affects books from not that well-known authors and smaller publishers. I am talking about things like huge plotholes, smaller things that does not make sense (e.g. a character mentions at the beginning of the page that the woman standing there is Lisa and then just noticing “for the first time” that the woman is Lisa on the next page) or mistakes like a side character that suddenly has a different name.
Another thing are translations of books from english to my native language (german) which often seems to be done by AI which brings typical mistakes like Idioms that don’t make sense or just not natural feeling sentences.
Last month I read a book where one character switched the way she addressed another character every few pages from an informal german “Du”(used for friends, relatives, aquaintances, younger people, …) to a formal “Sie” (usually used for people you barely know or in a professional environment).
That’s so annoying. Did you guys also noticed that?
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That’s why I barely read any self-published books in German. Just very few and parts of them are friends of mine (I wouldn’t read their stuff, if I didn’t like the reading experience though). Also the quality of books from smaller publishers decreased, I agree with that.
However, with the books I read I’m apparently lucky. But then, I think, most of what I’ve been reading last year hadn’t been smaller publishers and just one self-publisher (which was a different experience anyway due to the characters, for the proofreading, I guess it could have been better but wasn’t as bad as others I came across in the past).