@wronglang @mekkaokereke when you said that "the author has no spine" I remembered something. I liked the film "The Martian in spite of the obvious political message of one good man surviving "in the wild".

but then I read that it was a book adaptation and you could get it with or without swearwords, the censored version being for schools.

You just have to be very shortsighted not to realise you're writing educational YA and adapt your style accordingly (or you just despise YA readership)... or you just have no style and no respect for your finished work, just dollar signs for eyes.

@laguiri @wronglang @mekkaokereke

I genuinely liked the novel, when I was a kid