# OK, so how is N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth series?

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> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#):
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> Why didn’t you give us the title _If Beale Street Could Talk_? That would only have taken you a few seconds to look up if you had forgotten it from last night. You’re doing a lot of “Well, I can’t be bothered to spend a lot of my valued time before discussing something, since that’s other people’s jobs”-type posts. I think a minimum amount of work before comparing two books in their literary values is reading those two books.

I should have spent those few seconds looking up the movie’s title. You are right about that, mea culpa.

But it takes a lot more than a few seconds to obtain and read two entire novels, so the leap you made there is a bit much IMO.

I don’t know if anyone listens to the Scriptnotes podcast, but the successful screenwriters who host it regularly judge and give feedback to aspiring screenwriters based solely on the first couple pages of their scripts. I worked at a SoHo literary agency and they did not read entire novels when evaluating prospective clients.

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