The Plot

2 things bothered me and I just couldn't continue.  One is that plot isn't everything...Ive read books that had amazing plots but the writing was just terrible.  So that they kept being like well anyone could write this plot and it was going to be best seller bs, I wasn't buying.

Second, yes it was the student's idea but he died so....why couldn't protagonist just plop blurb in book saying student so and so told him of this idea and the he died.  He hoped he did him justice blah blah.  Then yeah, up front.  Dude still wrote the book so I just don't get it.