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Originally Posted by HarryT
I've certainly read books that I didn't enjoy, but I'd hesitate to call them bad books. I don't think that the fact that they didn't appeal to be personally necessarily equates to bad writing.
I'm sure that there are many badly-written books but, since I don't read self-published books, perhaps I don't come across most of them. One of the most useful roles of the publisher is to filter out the crap.
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Harry, if you want to read a review of a book that is simultaneously terrible and good, read
On Books: The Agony of Reading Franz McLaren’s Clarion of Destiny, which is my review of the "Clarion of Destiny" series. This series should have been a fantasy winner, but isn't.
The series represents what is both good and bad about self-published books. The story is interesting, if not compelling for a fantasy buff, but the English language is abused.