Thank you Brad Thor for making me a strong advocate of the "try a free sample" feature at the Amazon Kindle. Thanks to my Literature Map I bought and downloaded a Brad Thor novel so that I could get in the mood to write a thriller for next week's NaNoWriMo event. Thor's writing was so bad, so base, so incredibly juvenile that I felt like I wasn't listening to a fourth grader talking about his dreams and aspirations for becoming a spy when he grew up. Phrases like "at that exact moment the Mercedes careened into the bridge" and "he felt incredibly bad about it" as well as an overuse of the pluperfect tense (tons of hads) made me feel like I was still judging novels for the Houston Writers Guild. Due to the fact that the book cost me seven dollars, I rededicated myself to it several times. "It can't be that bad," I'd say to myself. Each time I came away thinking that it was that bad.
So, I'm now pledging to always download the sample before buying any book.
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