Editorial Suggestions - Whose Book is This Anyway?

After years of drafts, gallons of coffee, a wasteland of chewed pencils (or the keyboard equivalent), your book has been accepted! You breathe a huge sigh of relief and begin to fantasize the perfect launch party.

Not so fast.

Your editor has a few suggestions, and you feel duty-bound to take them.

Even if he missed the point of the book.
Even if the symbolism escaped him.
Even if he latched onto a minor character who appears in the opening, and "suggests" the book revolve around that character.

Slow, even breaths. You can do this. You're a writer! While you're rewriting the last 2/3 of the book, you shove your acceptance letter out of sight, and wonder whose book is this, anyway? You try to be fair -- the publisher made a big investment in your work, and wants it to sell. With an eye on the bottom line, your editor could have a point. The good ones usually do. On the other hand, for every Maxwell Perkins, there are many editors who have been wrong. Very very wrong.

Match up the editorial opinions below to the correct book. Go on, you deserve a break!

"There certainly isn't enough genuine talent for us to take notice."
A. Anne Sexton
B. Sylvia Plath
C. Lady Gaga

"The girl doesn't, it seems to me, have a special perception or feeling which would lift that book above the 'curiosity' level."
A. Bastard Out of Carolina
B. A Good Man is Hard to Find
C. The Diary of Anne Frank

"...even to an enlightened Freudian...the whole thing is an unsure cross between hideous reality and improbable fantasy... I recommend that it be buried under a stone for a thousand years.
A. Lolita
B. The Fountainhead
C. American Psycho

"I haven't really the foggiest idea about what the man is trying to say. Apparently the author intends to be funny - possibly even satire - but it is really not funny on any intellectual level."
A. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
B. Catch 22
C. Green Eggs and Ham

answers: BCAB