Or the distributor diagrams. 
I have a new favorite oxymoron.
This thing is pretty ridiculous on it’s face. As others have said, few of the rejections have any reasoning so you can’t say the reviewer was stupid or totally figured it out nor is there any guarantee that a “classic” is going to sell a lot about of copies.
Chilton published manuals on auto repair, for each year and model. They even had wiring diagrams, although they ceased that, probably because someone wanted to make money. I do not know if they still publish automobile repair manuals or not. :dubious:
One of the more painful whooshes I’ve seen around here, that was.
One should never assume honesty on the SDMB.
:rolleyes:
A quite eclectic list. Includes a diary of a child. Are the rest of the book on the level that a child could have written?
Another author from that list is hard to tell from machine translation.
For those following along at home, that’s The Diary of Anne Frank he’s talking about there.
With the perfection of the internet, you don’t actually need a publisher to succeed.
How do you know it, if it is not documented? It could well be that there were a lot of books of the same quality that were rejected and never became famous.
How do you know that the books on the list are really great? Is it an axiom? If not, how can you prove it? They have been rejected by the publishers. In random reading tests people can’t tell them from unknown authors. Do you have any proof at all that they are great? Any proof whatsoever?
Because of course appreciating art is all about science. 
As for your expert trail - :facepalm:
I have no idea what you hope to achieve by your threads, and your arguments are tiresome and circular. I am out of here.
He can suggest the “new twist” but we’ll tell him whether they are interesting or not.
There is no doubt in my mind that books of rapturous beauty languish in slush piles only to find their way to the recycle bin. By all means, get a job at a publishing house and rescue those mistreated works of art. That publishers reject a manuscript really doesn’t mean anything about the quality of the work itself. It means they’re not interested. There are any number of factors and reasons that may go into their rejection and they’ll be the first to tell you they’ve rejected any number of books and kicked themselves later when that book or a similar enough one went bananas on the best seller list.
This:
[QUOTE=Carl Sagan]
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
[/QUOTE]
Well, if you google his user name, one thing you might learn is that he posts a lot in different forums, making the same arguments, with links to his website. So one could form an admittedly non-expert opinion of what he hopes to achieve.
Hmm, that’s not okay. I will check in with mods on this, but suspect they have already looked into it.
Either way, Don Simus, good luck spinning your wheels. :smack:
We don’t always prohibit this kind of thing, but between the repeated links to his own site and the way Don Simus’ threads almost always focus on the same subject and cover the exact same ground, I’m going to close this. Try posting about some other topics, Don Simus. If anyone wants this thread re-opened, let me know and I’ll consider it.