Books that are too stupid to have been published. [View all]

Literary license is one thing. But getting fundamental things wrong is another.

Earlier today I got all of 45 pages or so into a book before putting it down in disgust. Someone connected to the editing of the book should have known that AP exams are NOT given in the fall of the year. All AP exams for a specific course are given on the same day across the country. In May. Not in November or December of perhaps January (it was hard to tell for sure, other than a high school football playoff game was at stake).

And DO NOT try to say, Oh, it's okay, no biggie. Or I'll write a novel in which Election Day is in May.

Oh, and the book in question is "The Rising" by Heather Graham and Jon Land who between them both have supposedly written and published a bunch of novels. I'd had a problem with the prologue that was using a bunch of fake science gobbledygook to set up some sort of scientific danger. Okay, so I was going to pass on that until the idiocy about the AP exam. Plus, someone's cell phone that has some sort of important information on it is swiped, and I strongly suspect exists ONLY on that cell phone, which is total bullshit since digital information never exists in only one place, although I don't know because as I said, I gave up after 45 pages or so.

Sigh.